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I messed up my first forest account, so on my new accounts I’m starting fresh with only creating exceptionally perfect horses to be my show herd- they will all be pointed yearlings and snipped.
I’m using only exceptionally producing herd helpers to start producing show foals- so I create them 3 or 4 years and stick them in pasture. This will be my first crop of foals, so anything that tests superior I will keep intact for the next generation, anything else will be snipped and placed in a show barn. I don’t plan on selling/auctioning off anything until the oldest turn 10

PT is how well your horses will earn points. Points make you money. They are related but not the same.

Size. The bigger the better. :)

I think that when Ammit says "size" she means the number of horses/ponies in your show herd. More horses = more points = more money.

Obviously we do not all have unlimited barn space, so if you have to cull I would probably keep anything with more than 500 points regardless of age or PT. For under 500 points look at a combination of their age, PT and total points. A young horse with a higher PT will be a big earner later, so is worth saving. Older horses that have a low PT and not very many points are taking up stall space.

Benchmarks for your cutoffs are going to depend on your herd. Right now all of my breeding stock are C/Yellows or B/Reds so most of my babies are 9.5-10.7 PT in a breeding season. I auction any baby with a PT below 10. As I get better breeding stock my PT range will go up, so my benchmark for babies to keep for showing will go up as well.

Personally I would keep a range of PT scores. The 9.5 to 10.5 will rise up the classes at a slower and steadier rate thereby earning as they go. Higher PT scores rise up the classes faster and may not stay long enough to make much money as they go, but will reach the higher classes and potentially make more money then. By having a mixture of lower and higher PT scores you get the best of both worlds. Like Ammit said - lots of show horses!