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It varies greatly for me what I require. I do not require PT at all. Sometimes you can have a superior horse breeding wise with a low PT. I think "the dice" are rolled two separate times for each numbers.

With my lower stallions I'll SBA everyone. With my higher stallions I'll BI the mares and keep golds, and BA the colts. I go by color too and what they like. If I got serious about keeping quality then I would start comparison testing. I am hesitant to do AFPT because sometimes I'll reverse bootstrap. And the quality of my stallions very greatly if I"m trying to get more variety, more color, or more quality so its not fair the mares I breed them to judge by AFPT.

I'm thinking I'll continue BA the herd and keeping what passes for breeding. Studs I already am super hard on, so that part wont be so difficult. Mostly just accumulating and working with the mares and figuring out which direction to go. Sounds like everybody has their own way of going about things. I'm sure I'll find mine! I also already paper everything coming in, so that's a good tip there. Anything over G4 must paper Gold/Star here. I think I'll try to stick with studs that test Superior To Sire as well.

Most of my boots are pretty high-powered as boot horses go.

I normally comparison test the fillies against their dams, but I have a few mares on different tiers of quality that I'll also use as benchmarks if I want to know exactly where a filly ranks among the rest.

Since I mostly use boosted stallions, I comparison test the colts against a benchmark stallion instead of against their own sires. If I'm not using a boosted stallion, I'll comparison test to sire, but that's pretty rare.

The only times I use BA are if: a.) I used a non-boosted stallion and have a reasonable expectation that his breeding quality is relatively even with the mare, and/or b.) I intend to geld/spay anyway and I'm giving the horse one final chance to earn a place in a pasture. :)

As far as PT, I consider it secondary to comparison testing, but I want my stock to be in the mid-13's and into the 14's whenever possible. I'll use a lower PT occasionally, but only if that horse tests superior.