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I have been going forward using only the horses I acquired as a confused newbie, their descendants, and any rank specials that happen to be shared when I am on.
I decided with the inability to paper and the low space I had, I would try to increase quality by only breeding all mares to highest two stallions I have.
I stared with the two stallions the account had, an uneven stallion I had created that I am confident would paper at yellow or at most low red (foundation quality stud, basically), and to my luck, a diamond age boy, and have been randomly been breeding them to my collection of mares (started all random quality creates, + all rank special mares I have acquired afterward) usually trying to put foundation mares with studs I thought would be less likely to produce fatal foals. Daughters of the one were bred to the other once they aged in, and vice versa. Room for new foals to be kept is made by selling the mares with the lowest AFPT. For the most part only intact foals can be kept since I have little room.

Another thing I am interested about is the fact that there is lots of frame and potential for lethal white combinations in my herd. I do not genetic test these guys, because I am not wanting to be swayed by color, but I know what different rank specials that I have in my herd normally have, and I can see what some of my foals have, plus one of my colts is almost completely whited out, so that is a danger factor. I am going to get lots of fatal foals. This could be remedied by genetic testing foals and arranging for no lethal combinations, but I wonder if just breeding the surviving horses based off of quality will select against the lethal genes so more and more horses without the risky genes will become prevalent in the herd as those with less risky genes are more likely to have more foals that get kept since more foals survive than horses with the riskier genes.
Whenever I get enough to get a basic upgrade (will be a while, but that is an advantage here) it will be fun to paper and genetic test all the horses to A; see what quality of horses I have. I am hoping for A studs and going into blue mares by then. And B; what genes I have in the herd and wether it looks like horses without risky genes are being favored.

So you're breeding mostly for performance?
If you're concerned about lethal genes I would suggest color testing them, that's part of what makes this particular game so fun. :)