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I think very basically having more show horses. I built back up my show bonus from nothing to 296k (which I think is more than it was before I took a break) in just under 2 months (admittedly with 10,000 free stalls and 10 million hbs, so obviously much much much easier than starting from the very beginning). I did that pretty much entirely from buying from the foundation rescue (ID#13) which I think is the quickest and cheapest way to buy horses with points.
Other places to buy stock from are the hajinc rescue (ID#9) in the auction and I think they are being shown now so that will soon be an even better resource. This will get you better PT but you can only bid on 30 at a time so will be much slower but better long term.
Some newer players will sell some of their pointed creates, which are great if you can get hold as they are young and already have lots of points so will pay out for a long time.
I guess other than that searching the auction and sales for horses with points or asking on the forum if anyone has any to sell.

So to build to up quickly I would say buy from the foundation rescue to to keep your bonus up while you wait for your current show stock to age up and start earning more.

If you've got time on your hands and need some extra hbs to buy horses and stall space (although you will need some spare stall space to do this) you can create mares and stallions and hand breed them and then sell the mares, stallions and foals. That would make you 1500hbs per foal, if you did for 100 foals that would 150,000hbs but you would admittedly need 202 spare stalls to do it, but if you have time and stalls could be worth it to bring in some extra hbs while you build up a show herd that will earn you that much without all the work.

I think there is some other techniques as well that I'm not too sure of for when you have more show horses than stalls to help you make the most out of the stalls such as culling off showstock when it levels off at the bottum of the class, although I wonder if that does help because I think often when entering whole barns you fill most of if not all a class on your own with that barn and I wonder if you get rid of the one on the bottum if one of your other show horses replaces that one at the bottum as your horses are still filling the whole show? I would be, interested to know if anyone else has any thoughts on this?