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For me, it's different on different lines. Some I'm breeding for color and size like my brown dun appy ponies from my Dutch line. With that line I don't worry too much about PT or papers as long as the fillies pass at least BA (breeding advice, in the control panel tag near the bottom) and colts pass SBA. Once they're tested, I cull that line for height (smaller is better!) and genes I want, then if I have colts that might be better than my current best for that gen, I do comparison testing to sire. "As good as" colts I usually sell unless I haven't yet gotten a superior, then superior ones I compare to my best from that gen and keep the best one.

Fantasy or closed gene lines like my macchiatos, watercolors, ice 13, and nexus I run SBA (strict breeding advice) before I even let myself look at the foals, then spend ten minutes going "Aww man! Another perfect one snipped!" and selling back to game between auctioning off all the plain boring foals who pass and cheering over the occasional intact beauty. My luck with SBA is very predictable most of the time and I'll get several foals snipped with the genes I wanted for every one that passes, even with pasture bonus, so I make a nice profit with the fantasy/closed gene sell back, but mostly I wish I had less profit and more shiny intact foals. Lol

I try to keep strict standards for my foals - I breed around 900 mares each season so I need to cut down on the number of foals I keep.

I breed even generations (with the exception of 2 bootstrap lines) and each generation has standards it has to reach. Colts always have to be superior to sire as well. I also don't keep inconsistent breeders (mainly a way to limit numbers honestly). For show ponies I keep any with 10.5 PT and above (mainly because I just don't have to room to keep all 900 foals each season even as show horses).

Certain lines also have colour or gene restrictions - my DP line has to be chocolate or liver, my special genes have to have the special genes, etc.

When I first started my standards were quite lax because I didn't have that many mares to breed each season, now however I've gotten a lot more strict but this is my process.

First I open all the foals pictures (because I think that they at least deserve a quick peek and I also breed by phenotype, not just genotype) then I move them all to my barn and Strict Breeding Advice everyone. I run Performance Inspection next and then cull out any snipped horse that are also inconsistent (this is mostly to cut down on how many horses I keep for show ponies but a rare super cool looking foal might be kept anyway :P). At this point, I usually run Genetics testing and Breeding Inspection. If they paper below standard for that generation, automatic snip and/or sent to auction. Then go through and cull out any mares that don't meet genotype and/or phenotype requirements for that line. Stallions must test Superior to Sire first and then usually get compared to the other studs in that generation and/or any half brothers.

I have four lines going currently, with a few different goals. For my color herd, I pretty much exclusively look for ones I like, make sure they pass BA, and then speld the rest. Once I hit *star on the colts, I’ll test them against my bootstrap sire to see who to keep.

For my ExceptionallyPerfect herd, I have all ExPerf foundations (red papered, 10.4PT across the board). Second generation fillies have to pass SBA to stay intact, and need to paper Blue, along with a PT of 10+. Second generation colts need to pass SBA, paper A, and have a PT of 10.4 or better.

For my ND1 herd, I require second generation foals to pass SBA, second gen papers at least red. Liver is the same.