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I boosted every generation of an even line and then breed the stallion back to lower quality mares, personally. If you look at this boy

4g These Artful Moves
He is technically 4g, but with full boosting along the way his grade is very high. Now that I have such a high grade he will be bred back to gold mares (mostly) to pump them up through the ranks. I have done this with every generation thus far.

His father was bred back to uneven mares, and his father before him. But I kept a single even line to get the higher quality studs. :) there’s tons of ways to do it, mine relies on expensive boosts but you can do the same thing without boosts it would just take a lot longer to get to this quality. This line had a natural born 3g star that I boosted to mid-tier star. I always have mare lag on both here and hj2, but I prefer it over stagnating stallions.

If I wasn’t boosting I would just breed the two best tested every generation together and aim for a pair of superiors to breed together. Foundation stallion a + foundation mare a = foals 1 + 2 superior. (One mare one stallion)

Breed foals 1 + 2 together to her superior pair 3 + 4.
Breed stallion 1 to any other mares of his generation to boost them up to his level. Mares must test superior to their mother to stay intact.

Breed foals 3 + 4 together to get pair 5 + 6.
Breed stallion 3 with all mares up to #2. Etc. this will bring them up to around #4 quality. Mares must test superior to their mother to stay intact.

This just keeps going endlessly.

This way you will always have a slight mare lag as your mares age up, but you keep breeding up the pts and breeding ability. Let me know if that doesn’t make sense.

Personally I don’t like bootstrapping for show horses. I tried it on bluegrass and that account is still struggling in the show horse/daily bonus department three years later, and I switched to even breeding over a year ago. Where’s the account that has done even breeding from the beginning is making double the bluegrass account, and they were made at the same time.

The only reason I’m contemplating doing it on this server is because I recently realized breeding a foal for high PT and color is fun rewarding and less work than even breeding. However I fully anticipate either breeding a bunch of 2g foals or buying foundations with points as my main show horses.