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@ArtilleryEquestrian2 When breeding horses of very different quality levels the foal is less likely to pass breeding advice than if you breed horses of similar quality. Breeding Advice will tell you if a foal is a good result for the pair you are crossing. The wider the quality gap the more difficult it can be to get a foal to pass BA.

What you are currently doing, breeding lower quality mares to a higher quality stallion, is called bootstrapping and will get you to cap quality horses faster than breeding similair quality horses together. When boostrapping you want to keep any fillies who are superior to their dams intact and breed back to either their sire or another high quality stallion. Any colts or low quality fillies would be altered and added to your show herd, which are what will earn you the most HBs.

I can not stress this enough.

Your show stock is your income. It's a good thing lots of foals get fixed. Buy room for them first.