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Once upon a time, I was told to have at least 3 show horses per 1 breeding horse.

I've been playing for almost 6 years. Currently, I have roughly 5900 show horses, from 2 years to 35 years old, and about 1200 breeding horses. Of those breeders, about 200 are great show horses I left intact to act as embryo recipients (who may or may not be bred each season). Another probably 400-ish are girls I haven't gotten around to sorting. I'm on another overhaul and will be spaying quite a few more mares in the next couple months (or I at least plan to, lol).
So, I'm sitting above the 3:1 ratio I strive for. My daily bonus is about 385k right now, but I had broken 400k last month. For a while, I tried to purchase a new barn every season, or every other season, to keep increasing the number of show ponies I could have. I noticed that for many rollovers, I was losing a lot of points from my older ponies that passed on, and I didn't have a lot of young up and comers to replace them. I finally decided to get into bootstrapping about a year and a half ago, because the high PT was really alluring to me. I do feel that my show herd has benefitted from adding them, and it's an additional fun challenge to see if I can get my evenly bred lines up to their quality (I'm still really far away from this, lol!).

It really depends on what you decide is a healthy daily bonus! There's no wrong answer.

I’m not established by any means, but in the 4 years of off again on again playing, I’m furthest I’ve ever been. I reached higher daily bonuses (albeit it is only temporary) by buying off the foundation rescue with “total points” as the filter. It’s definitely helping for the meantime while I’m waiting for my own herd to age up. While doing this and constantly look at the sales page whether it’s auction day or not, I also look for highest pt scores, and create only great show horses or exceptionally perfect hh and immediately alter and consistently show them. It’s still slow, but it’s brought me to 20.5 daily so far! Every other time I’ve played I’ve been stuck in the 6/7s daily.

And I will say this last roll over the gamble payed off as I only lost maybe 7 horses (all from the foundation rescue), but I’m at a point where just showing brought me back into the 20k range.
Another thing that helped was, when I was able to, I would buy genes for others and use the hbs I got from it to buy more barns and create//buy more show stock with either high points or pt scores. It doesn’t matter how many stalls either as long as you’re buying, I have multiple 15, 30, 120, and 210, and I have a goal of getting a 1k barn sometime this coming year. I used to think “all or nothing” (either buying a 210 or 1k barn, or no barn at all), but I’ve learned as long as it’s something it’ll always benefit :)

I hope this helps!

Definitely makes a huge difference in these slow stages!

I have around 7,000 altered horses plus around 300 stallions/colts and embryo transfer receipt mares that are shown. My daily is over 510k currently but has been up to 567k. The biggest difference is barn space. The more barn space you have, the more show ponies you can have. I'm going to send you a little gift to help you out with barn space. ;)

@Haltanny holy cow, thank you so much. I appreciate you so much.

I first saw a huge different when I started prioritizing 13+ pt show horses. My second priority is 10-11 pt altered. Everything else gets dumped. I only sort my show horses at 10 and they need 500 points to stay. I never sell off otherwise.

I’ve got 10.6k horses out of pasture, less than 4K altered. This includes several thousand mares I use for embryo transfer, unsorted horses, and tons of show horses I have forgotten to alter. I make over 1 million daily. I was 1.1 million after rollover.

I haven’t been altering my 14+ horses mostly because I’m too lazy and forget to. But several of my all time points are stallions/mares.

I really need to do a HUGE culling because I haven’t been keeping up with my horses the last 6 or so months.

I currently have 12,697 alters and 3,008 intact and available for breeding, so I'm sitting at 4.22:1.
I do not prioritize PT scores or consistency in my show herd, but generally do not keep any alters under 10.4 PT. I also cull every season for show horses 10 yrs or older with less than 500 points.