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Oh LG this is me every season, even if it’s just two or three horses it helps a lot! I usually find the low papered horses, also with low PT and Consistency, test them with BA (or SBA in your case) and if they don’t pass they go bye bye. Yes it’s a decline in points but it gives me more space and although I don’t have any 1000 barns It always helps, especially when I’m looking at my spreadsheet and I notice that they seem to be a lot worse stat wise, it’s easier to find which ones I want to get rid of (even the ones that are beauties, they must go at some point, others sooner than the rest). Hope this makes sense but my account is a little over a year old so it’s still kinda getting started. :)

This has happened way too many times. I’m only a year old and not quite at the big barn level yet, but a few tips that may or may not be helpful?

-Main one: Get rid of lower-pointed horses. Kinda obvious, and yes it's a money loss, but it can open lots of space, and you can get more higher-pointed horses, and you have more room for show foals. Just set a standard, under 400 points at 10 years old, under 500 points when leveled off, more than a PT of 12.50, not earning many points, not earning enough hbs a day, whatever you want.
-Get rid of older horses. If they’re not high-pointed and are aged out, or about to…BYE!
-Make your standards higher. Find a few things that all your breeding herd needs to pass, and cull the rest. (more show ponies~) Don’t let that one pretty pony just waltz through.
-and if you have any, get rid of those pretty horses you’re keeping just to keep. Maybe it's a RS herd helper, a pretty looking low-papered mare, etc. I have too many of these, but they take up space, so just take a screenshot, and into the auction or show barn they go.
-Any projects you seem to be neglecting, just get rid of them unless you plan to, and WILL, revive it. Or, get rid of projects that aren't getting anywhere.
-If you find that you have some breeding horses that passed your standards, but never use or forget to use them at the end of the season, maybe it's time to put them in a show barn, sell them, or toss them into the auction.

Hope this helps :)


eta: And a tip for sorting and getting rid of horses. Try to get everything in a barn, even a random mixed-up barn, clean up all the barns and horses, and put every horse that doesn't have a place into the primary barn. Then go back to the primary in the end, and clean it up. It might be helpful, it might not, it's just what I do.

I don’t know. Have you tried screaming?

I would second a lot of what Vella and DarkPhoenix said.

For show ponies anything with less than 500 points by the middle of the month at age 10 gets auctioned. Anything that is earning less than 20 points per year that is age 10+ also get auctioned. I don't keep any show foals with a PT of less than 10.0 each season, except for futurity swapped foals where I have promised to keep the foals.

I also have become very strict about my breeding horses I keep. If the barn for that particular breeding group is full, a mare has to be auctioned or sold back to the game to make room for the "new blood" I want to rotate in. To give you an example, here are my requirements for keeping breeders in my Eras herd.
-Must be consistent.
-Foals with evenly papered parents (B matched to red, A matched to Blue, etc) must pass SBA. Boostrapped foals must pass BA.
-They must meet my color criteria: Must have D, R, SB2 or W3. Must also have 2+ copies of Sty or DP, or 1+ copy of S+.
I only keep 2-3 stallions per era. For every superior stallion colt that ages up, one of the older stallions gets retired, auctioned, or sold back to the game. "Retired" stallions are ones that I would have auctioned or sold back to the game, but they still have futurity qualified foals under age 6. They will stay to continue to be qualified until their foals age out of the futurity. After that, they'll be auctioned or sold back to the game.
Era 0-1 mares must be blue papered or higher. Era 2-5 mares must be red papered or higher. Era 6 mares must be perfect foundation yellows or red papered. As the quality of my mare herd in each era increases, the papering requirements for the mares for that will get more strict. For example, in Era 0 I have only half a dozen blue mares left in the herd. Once I am able to replace all of them with *gold mares, the new Era 0 requirement will be *Gold or higher.

If a breeding horse doesn't meet the requirements, it gets added to the show herd or auctioned. Period. No exceptions. If something is super special, I will use GMTs to make it meet the requirements. If it's not special enough to spend the GMTs on, it's not special enough to be an exception.

I guess the main point for breeding projects would be if you have too many projects, or too many horses for a project, narrow your focus or requirements for the project so that fewer horses fit the criteria. Then be pretty ruthless about cutting the horses that no longer fit the requirements.