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I've been told that if you have enough to continue your lines, go with the higher paper.

If it was me, I would snip my 3G Bs ASAP and throw them in my show herd.

I have previously been more conservative when moving from red to blue. If you are pasture breeding, I would snip Reds as you can replace them with Blues in your pasture. If you aren't pasture breeding, I would probably move more quickly as a Red/A pairing isn't as likely to pass testing. Alternatively, you could keep some of the Reds around specifically to produce show ponies with one of your best high gen stallions.

Yep, as cheers said, the 2g b studs won't help you, you need the studs top notch to bring up any slack in your mares and weed out all the lower foals with advice. I have some studs that I know if the foal passes breeding advice it will paper beautifully as well. Highest studs possible, and I try to go with even too so I know I am keeping with generation quality standards. Breed the mare to the stud that will help achieve best foals. Sometimes that is moving a mare up, sometimes it is putting reds with b studs.

If you have 3G yellow mares I would absolutely snip those. Personally, I always snip 2G yellow mares since it's pretty easy to get Red at 2G. I haven't gotten to 3G yet since my 2G mares aren't old enough to breed, but I expect foals from C X Yellow pairings to paper Red/B and foals from B X Red exceptional pairings to paper Blue/A. I've been trying not to mix regular foundations with exceptional foundations but if I do I still expect the colts to paper A. I allow the fillies from regular X exceptional a little more slack and I let them stay intact if they're Red, although I have managed to get a 2G Blue papered filly from breeding B X Yellow, it's just a lot harder than getting 2G Blues from B X Red. I'm pretty ruthless about snipping though, and I know a lot of people aren't as strict. I don't have access to SBA so I have to go by paper level to judge quality in my young stock. I can look at AFPT as they get older and snip the ones that aren't good enough, but they need a couple foals on the ground first.

If your 3G Red mares are older, I would look at their AFPTs to see what quality of foals they are producing and compare that to the AFPTs of your 3G Blue mares. If you have 3G Reds that have AFPTs that are pretty close to the AFPTs of your 3G Blues, I would keep them intact because that would mean that they're probably higher Reds if they're producing foals that are almost as good as what you're getting from your Blue mares.

Ok will look at those now. Thanks. Should I snip my yellow mares even though I know they may not get a training bonus.