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I consider it pretty important, a piece of the puzzle to cull my mare herd, although I also use average foal PT as a measure of their quality.

I also use it as a piece of the culling puzzle...but I also think I'm relying more heavily on AFPT and on papering my gelded foals than simply on papering mares, especially mares I buy in rather than create and pasture breed from the start!

This is just the way I play, I may play a little different than most other players when it comes to PT and papering.

I am about the same as SandyCreek for the same reason with my mares. Plus, I show all my horses, altered or not. The mares I do manage to get three foals from, sometimes are 10 or 11 years old by the time I get to them. Some of those mares may paper yellow or red, but their foals have higher PT than they do, so I leave them intact. However, I may not breed them again before they age out of the game.

I try and paper my stallions as soon as they are born, since I don 't have to wait for three foals like with mares. I sometimes get so excited about the colts I am getting, that I forget to paper them for a while. I go by generation, and paper level for gelding. If one has a nice PT, but papers lower, then I geld right away. Unless, I see something in him, and I want to test breed him to a couple of mares first, to see if he gives me good show horses.

I have several homebred *Star* stallions, but they are just now reaching breeding age. I will test breed them a few times, before gelding, if they do not produce good foals. My older *Star* stallions I bought from other players. The same applies for my stallions, all are shown, and my show bonus is between 500k to 1mil. So papering and PT are not the highest priority on my things to do in the game.

I look at them and go "eh, she's pretty, she can stay" or "that one just has a look in her eye, she's outta here!"

Lol that's how I do mine. :-) I am an appy and paint crazy lady. Lol but now I have alot of white coming out bc of all the white I have.