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This is the best example in my gen 2 stud barn.

G2 5801390 chinoxDPwtcsb2

He is het for chinchilla, onyx, nexus, watercolor and sabino 2.
Hom for dp.

I like Fallens way, but my lines weave together so I'm not sure how I'd figure that one out in later gens lol. Right now, I have a set letter or combo of letters that I know is for a certain gene so I know at a glance what a horse has that I'm looking to pass on. Examples- WT = watercolor, KP= kit promoter, D=DP, K2=KP2, X= Nexus...
I also name my mares in such a way with the name generator that I know who their sires are so I can keep up with who I want to breed them to. Example- sires name is CarryOnWaywardSon, fillies name will be Wayward(whatever pops up on the generator) knowing that that particular sire is hom snowflake, I know she's at least het so I breed her to a snowflake stud, if that makes sense. She would also have SF/sf after her name. Capital is homozygous, lower case is het.
Gens will all be at the front of the name
Like 3WRB, tells me it's a 3rd gen blue papered mare (the WR in the middle is Windigo Ranch lol)
Here's some of my boys to give you a visual

3WA Ruckus CK2SADGSSUP
Ruckus is hom for all the things I want to keep up with listed in his name. C is for chocolate, cause I use b already to note phantom bats. He's also superior to his sire and my 3g benchmark.

2WRb RockFound dkpw10
Rock has w10 and I wanted to make sure I knew it before I even start breeding him so I know what to avoid since it doesn't usually play well with others lol.

2WRb StudioMixer cdk2xi8s
Mixer has so much stuff going on I couldn't fit it all! He's het for pretty much every open gene so I just marked the ones I follow closely and he mainly sees his siblings in the breeding shed to give me a chance at hom for everything 3rd gens. I just love studio ponoc!

I do something like this. Abbreviation for the gene name, the generation and the parent's names to try to keep it straight

Fired Goods 2G KPSf

So originally i used the alphabet and assigned a gene to a letter and then made it so upper case meant homozygous and lowercase meant heterozygous (ex: "N" for homozygous Snowflake or "s" for heterozygous sooty+ and so on). I also used numbers for ice and white genes. This got to be very tedious and annoying to me because i had to individually name everything one at a time.

Now, I keep it very simple. So i have three main lines but MANY genes thrown into each for extra pizzazz.
- Mushroom Line (also has DP, KP, Onyx, Spiders, Lace, Satin, etc)
- Chinchilla Line (also has Bats, Skulls, Pumpkins, Ghosts, Onyx, KP, Satin, etc)
- Nexus Line (has a little bit of everything, open and closed)

Since there are way too many genes to notatein a single horse's name sometimes, i now simplify it by the most important gene in the line; Mushroom, Chinchilla, or Nexus.

The lines are named as such:
Mushroom - "A# Mu(A) ID NUMBER"
Chinchilla - "A# Chn(A) ID NUMBER"
Nexus - "A# NX ID NUMBER ***OR*** A# SP ID NUMBER"

Show breeders are simply named "SB ID NUMBER" unless they have a specific pasture, then "SB" becomes whatever initials i have assigned to that pasture.

**A = the first letter of my stable name
**# = generation (A1 = foundation, A2 = second gen, etc)
**Mu = Mushroom
**Chn = Chinchilla
**(A) = I used to have a line of B/Red foundations so i distinguished between the two by adding an "A" for the A/Blue foundation line or a "B" for the B/Red foundation line
**NX = Nexus
**SP = Studio Ponoc or Space Project (my two main nexus studs)
**ID NUMBER = pretty self explanatory :)

Studs/Colts that i keep intact are typically the only horses i ever give a real name to. Fillies and show horses just get their ID numbers. I now just ignore all the other genes and just consider them to be a bonus but i keep my focus on the main 3. By 3rd gen ALL my foals have to be homozyous for their respective gene in order to stay intact so i don't have to worry about "losing" the main gene later on.