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So this is how I tend to do my bootstrapping herd:

Breeding Inspecting (paper) the girls, gene test, PT test. Turn off testing, cull but what I like/what is good.

The boys I tend to paper, and separate the Star ones (if there are any). The rest get SBAed (they wouldn't pass anyway) and I have a closer look at the boys. If I like 'em, I'll comparison test them to their dad. So far I'm not there yet, I started with a pretty high stud.

BA would be a good thing to use to test on the boys to see if they are in the ballpark of the stud. They should be better than the mares, since the stud is so much better, so it's more or less comparing them against their sire. Outside of BA and comparison testing, there really is no way to tell. Breed the daughters back to their sire, and keep on testing the resulting colts with BA until you start getting some passing. Then those that pass could be worth a boost

Exactly~! And honestly, if you are patient, you probably don't even need a spend a boost. Once a good amount of the foals are passing BA, you can just breed them all together and BA their offspring

Can I ask, what is the purpose of bootstrapping? To get high quality faster? Does it make for better earnings faster, because of the quality and/or quantity? And then why breed evenly, except for the challenge of doing it "right" or more true to real life? Am I thinking too hard about a game? Haha :-)
Thanks in advance!