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Not sure if this would be helpful but on the wiki page there are a heap of abbreviations.

https://wiki.huntandjump.com/books/resources/page/glossary

I normally put my brand, generation, paper, name, special genes.
Unless it is a special HH. Then I put brand, HH name, random numbers.

Other than that, I put all the details in the horse notes. For the mares, I put down which baby was bread and passed or which failed. For the Stallions, I put their testing results, if I tested them against another stallion.


GB BRING B T SUN 10033359


GB G1 RD 9950905

Yeah I started off using the more official abbreviations, but there's just not enough space for those and a name, especially on a horse that has a lot to mark down. I think I came up with an okay system for now, but it's definitely going to need improvement when I get more horses lol. What I'm trying to do is be able to view important information at a glance from the barn page, so that I can read the name and know the horse has a special HH or gene or color I'm looking for or whatever., preferably without having to name them like robots.

For my even bred horses, I use generation-paper-body type. Foundation horses have notation of what HH or RS they are. Fantasy horses have LTD. So they would look like:

1BL XP Rose Bowl - foundation red/B paper light boned, not a rank special
1BH EB Cookies n Creme - foundation Red/B paper heavy bone, Evergreen Boughs
3SH LTD Rouge River - 3rd gen Star/Gold heavy bone, fantasy genes

For my bootstraps, I use DOA for my farm and Avg Foal PT. So that looks like:
DOA 136 Epitome Science - AFPT of 13.6-something
DOA 129 Thanks Friend - AFPT 12.9-something

I don't put nearly as much info in the names as I used to do - when I am selecting horses for pasture, breeding, etc., I pretty much only use the search tool and include gene filters, because I had so many horses that I mislabeled or couldn't put all the genetic code in or I switch the letters I was using and forgot.

All of my lines have a one or two letter marker - my main line on Bluegrass is my O line because they are heavy on Onyx, my boostrap lines are BS, my nexus line is Nu, so on, so forth. Best in pasture horses are marked with BiP. Horses that I keep around only for public breeding are marked with bd.

My even lines I include their generation number and their paper level. So a third generation star stallion from my main line would be O3A Name. A eighth generation gold mare who is best in pasture would be O8G Name BiP.

For my uneven lines (on this server, my bootstrap and Nexus lines), I used a number to designate paper and testing level. 1 is yellow/c, 2 is B/red 3 is A/blue, 4 is star/gold, 5 is star/gold that passed breeding advice and 6 is star/gold that passed strict breeding advice. That helps me keep track of my mares and stallions at the same time. So a star-papered nexus colt that passed breeding advice would be Nu5 Name. A gold-papered bootstrap mare that was best in pasture will be BS6 Name BiP.

But really it comes down to what works for you. I like naming my horse names based on their parents, and I needed letter space to do it. So my genetic info in names shrunk, then went away, and my line prefixes dropped from three or four letters to one or two. But it means they all get better names now.


My wreck-it line (low performers, low pt score) is KO (for "knock out), and I add their pt score as #p# behind their names. I don't bother with papers there because in theory they all stink, and I'm mixing and matching generations because my KO stock is so low.