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I sell anything at age 10 with less than 500 points. I’m basically just paying to house them at that point and they give me more money auctioning them for their lifetime payout.

10-11 pt and especially 13+ pt are typically your best show horses. I have inconsistent horse that make me mega money so I don’t cull based on consistency.

Thank you! It is interesting too see the different strategies. I think my newest barn has just so many young horses (I have been doing a lot of breeding the last few months) that I am not noticing gains yet. But what is considered a good score? I've also heard that you want your show horses are certain show classes/levels but I don't remember what those were or if that is true...

It probably is just time - give it two or three months and see how it starts looking. In the meantime, making space for more is always good, plus if you can get pointed creates that are expeprf/exshows and have 10.4 PT that's always a good boost.

As for me, I do much like pestilent does - I wait til 10, because that's the age it's worth culling as you can get more money in auction - and sell off any that are low pointed enough that their total lifetime isn't worth keeping around. I don't touch the ones over 15, though, because once they get past the initial 10 yo cull (aka have enough points they're worth keeping, 500-600+), there's a chance they won't age out and will make me more money than the lifetime payout says they will. I have some show horses still going strong at 30+!

I've found that the 10-somethings tend to level off in a better place than the 11-somethings, funny enough, at least the consistent ones. Haven't the faintest why.

I used to have a showing bonus over 300k (I started somewhere around 150-200k and it took me about 6-8 months to build up). My philosphy is that if you want your show bonus to grow, then your most valuable show horses are not only the ones with the most points total, but also the ones who are earning the most points per year. So rather than sorting horses by total points to cull, I used to cull show horses later in the month and cull the ones who were only earning 0-10 points in a month (that's less than 1hb in daily earnings).

Buying all the pointed foundations you can get your hands on is another surefire way to grow your daily bonus quickly.

Of course, then I was a total dork and accidentally auctioned 2000 show horses a few months ago, so I'm back down to about 160k/day.