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The first thing that I noticed is that he comes from a long line of A papered studs. That's not necessarily a bad thing and I'm less experienced than other breeders when looking at this kind of thing, but I feel like the line has stagnated a bit. I'm compare him to his sire. If he tests worse than or AGA, I'd probably hold out for a superior son. If he tests superior, keep him and hopefully see if he can produce stars/golds.

Also, he's a hom dp hom pearl stud for comparison. I'm not quite sure where your boys are on the dp spectrum as I don't see any from his mum, but comparing it to a known one can't hurt.


Mister Mystery

Thanks for answering, @ObsidianKitsune. Your Mister Mystery is gorgeous, I love the rich shade of a DP pearl.

I had noticed my hom pearl stallion King of Cozy's pedigree has three generations of A stallions. I thought it was because that while the generations were evenly bred, the papers weren't because A was crossed to Red in a few places. Cozy tested superior to sire and his son Bourbon King just tested AGA. I hadn't done it before because I'm horse poor again and I was going to test my Dance Between Two Oceans colt instead, but he will just have to wait. lol

I know for sure that my colt's sire Cozy only has one DP, he was a liver when I bought him as a colt and I GMTd the pearl gene he missed from his dam. And I didn't word my original post well. I meant I think Bourbon King has one copy of DP, not two. I had gotten the impression that pearls don't show dapples unless they do have DP. :)

I would want star, but he is gorgeous. If he is the best you have right now I'd use him, but be braced to replace when you have a higher quality colt.

King's Ransom is a rank special :) They're champagne horses who carry both pearl and DP. I think there's a bunch up for stud pretty cheap if you can't hunt down your own to work with.


I Kings Court

I got super lucky in that I managed to get a hom dp, hom pearl girl straight off the bat from breeding two kings ransoms together;


II All O The Kings Riches

I'd probably keep hold of him until something better comes along so you've got something to work with in the meantime, but try and always aim for better. I've recently gelded my main 4g studs since I managed to get two *star boys to replace them, but it took me years to get to that point. It's definitely a good move bootstrapping since you'll get good horses who'll build up your daily bonus easier which will allow you to work on your own goals more easy too.

@Bourbon, would you keep the colt I posted above in place of his sire?

The colt, Bourbon King, tested AGA his sire King of Cozy. I own them both and was leaning towards selling the colt and keeping his sire Cozy, who is just three but is a 5th gen, which is already well above the level of most of my mares. I'm doing some bootstrapping with Cozy but I'm always on the lookout for pearl 5th gen mares for him too.

Kings Court and All O The Kings Riches are both beautiful, especially Riches! He's exactly what I hope to be breeding one of these days. I love that rich shade you get with pearl and DP together, I think it's beautiful.

@SandycreekFarm, I can hardly wrap my mind around that kind of showing bonus. I get a little over 3k a day right now and I am permanently horse poor just trying to get all my mares bred. lol

The first month I was playing, I wasn't keeping anything that got snipped and I was choosing breeding stock for looks instead of PT, papers, or what I might be able to sell if I need to. I'm still turning my herd around now that I know better, weeding out the ones not showing well and trying to improve quality too. I'm making progress because my foals are improving, but I'm sure to people who have been playing for years my stable still looks horrible. :))

I already have around twenty foals from this season I planned to show and hold on to until I see which ones are pulling in the most points. I could add him to that bunch, but it hadn't even occurred to me to snip him for showing. I bred a lot of 10+ foals this season, even a few over 11, and many were snipped even though they're consistent. I've kept the best ones so far to try to build up my show string, but I'm getting low on space.

I've been buying show ponies from the auction to get pointed horses in my barns instead of foals starting at zero, which has helped a lot. Enough, in fact, that now HH creates for me have no points, so mostly I'm buying out of auctions or sales lists instead of using my HH. lol

I have this guy I would be more than willing to let you breed to. Unfortunately I wouldn’t sell him at this time, I did some GMT work to him. But he’s a hom pearl, Hom Sooty Foundation.


G1 Wild Pearl Summer

@FallenShadows714, he's a nice one! Thank you! I'm definitely saving him to my folder of bookmarked stallions I plan to breed to.

Yes, I do appreciate that this game doesn't operate in real-life years! I have a hard enough time waiting for real-life animal baby season to roll around every year!

@JustaSaddletramp can you use straws?

@justasaddletramp lol same, this game keeps me from stalking through Facebook and BLM sale pages for horses I can't buy and lets me do something constructive instead!

lol @HTRanch Oh yeah, been there! I'm not wandering around Fakebook bored looking at other people's horses and watching baby goat videos near as much now. :D

Annnd after all my worrying over what I should do with him, he failed. lol I'm an idiot.

The game just snipped him, so it agrees with you, @Bourbon. lol

He's with my show string now, but if he doesn't hold his own he'll likely end up in an auction. I've got a barn just for the foals I've got growing out and showing to see which are the best. I clean it out every two or three weeks and cull ones that haven't gotten any points to speak of. Right now I have some possible future breeders in there with a crop of 13 snipped show ponies, mostly over 10 PT. I keep an eye out for foals going cheap with high PT, that's how I got up on one of the leaderboards. I surely didn't breed that high myself yet!

I like Mikey, he's my favorite Ninja. :D I had no idea his sire is a King's Ransom, but it explains why PearlyKing looked so familiar to me. I was thinking I must have considered breeding to him, but I bet I'm just remembering the genetics from Mikey's sire. I always look at the genetics and pedigree before I buy, not that it's helping me much. :))

What do you think of the DBTO colt?

Your DBTO foal is veeery nice! I'm actually a little jealous of him haha! He was exactly what I was going for (plus some extra bone) and I did the same cross with a wet'n'wild mare too, this is what I ended up with;


II Control Two Ocean

I think the only thing that isn't amazing with your boy is the inconsistency, but that's a minor issue. I'm just extra fussy, but then I have about 3000+ horses so I need to be fussy to keep track. If you sold him you'd probably get 500k+ but he's an absolutely rock solid horse to get your pearl line going!

@ NorthernStars I've actually got Bad Wolf saved in my bookmarks. I own one of his daughters and she is gorgeous. :D

I definitely want to breed to him in the future! Just, y'know, not right now because I'm broke too. lol

@JustaSaddletramp, breed to my RS any time you would like. I also have this 2G stud who is hom sooty and het DP and het pearl, please use him too because he is lonely and does not have nearly enough girlfriends yet :-) Now that I have used them both I'm dropping both stud fees for the rest of the season.


Magi dp B2

I will, @HTRanch, thank you! I just don't want to waste such a nice stud, putting him in my barn to do almost nothing when you have more mares to breed him to and could be putting him to work. :)

I love the sooty+DP with pearl, I'll definitely keep Magi in mind! I just saved him. :D

I have a bunch of Bad Wolf foals that I need to test and if they are up to breeding scratch you can have your pick of as many as you want them, I'll pm you once I've colour tested and papered them, that was you'll have more second gen pearl ponies, if you don't like or want them that's cool too.

OMG @Bourbon, thank you very much! It will take me a while to use them, I only have a few mares, but I greatly appreciate it.

@NorthernStars I really appreciate it! The filly I have by him is a really nice 3yo chocolate palomino splash named American Werewolf, but I certainly need more 2G pearl fillies.

Nice!

@ObsidianKitsune HTRanch has said I can breed to him when I need to, and this way I'm not keeping him from being used in HTRanch's pastures and such. :)

I only have the one foundation pearl mare right now, so I'm going to start storing up eggs from my Wet N Wild mare to breed some hom pearl 2G fillies from her and Pearl King. I would need to use straws anyway for that, so it seems like kind of a waste for him to be in my barn. With him het pearl, crossing him to my non-pearl foundations (I have almost no cream in my herd) isn't likely to end in many pearl fillies for my 2G colt Mikey, who is also het. I can't afford to spend twenty bucks a piece to make more hom pearl foundations, and saving up IVs for it would take me a year. :))

@ObsidianKitsune I got my Wet N Wild mare early last month, it just took me this long to make her hom pearl and get a couple eggs from her before I bred her. :)

And I'd love to have your Wet N Wild mare, but it looks like I'm broke until after the auction tomorrow. How much would you want for her, so I know how many I need to sell? :3

Oh wow! :O Thank you! I added you to my chat.