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I tend to keep 99% of all my spelds (spays and gelds). If I need room, i'll sell an altered foal back to the game here or there but other than that I keep them all :)

I keep everything because I have a pixel pony hoarding problem. But if I'm tight on space or short on hbs, I will sell a second altered horse back to the game if they are still a yearling with a poor PT score.

EDIT: The auctioning is getting less and less though. I can't remember the last time I did.

I Auction all spelds with a PT below 10.0. I keep everything else as a foal. Occasionally I will auction broodmares who aren't living up to my standards. Depending on what their offense is, they may or may not be spayed.

I still have a mild barn shortage space issue, though it is getting better as my bonus goes up. I am at the point where I manage to get a new barn within a day or three of needing one. In the meantime, I keep everything 10.5 and above and for foals from foundations it is 10.4 and up. Once I do not have a barn issue, then it will be 10.0 and above.

I keep all my altered horses, you never know who is going to be a good show horse until they level off. I have seen many horses who do poorly while leveling up and rake in the points once they level off.

If you are going to spend Real Life money on the game, they very best investment you can make is barn. A year ago I bought a thousand stall barn with real money. Filled it with show ponies. I now have 5-thousand stall barns and I never spent another real life penny on barns.

Pt doesn't tell you how good a show horse a horse will end up. I have horses with 11.2PT who have 3 times the points that some of my (equal aged) 12.8 horses have. It just tells you, roughly, how high up the ladder a horse may go. Any horse can end up in a good spot or a poor spot. Best to just keep them all.

While I know there is the odd low PT horse with ridiculously high lifetime points, the fact is that the odds are that a higher PT horse will earn more lifetime points. My policy was instituted back when I struggled a bit for barn space and even though I'm now drowning in empty stalls, I've maintained it. If you're willing to keep everything that's fine, but for most newer players who are struggling for space, it's a much better bet to auction their low PT spelds and use those funds to try to buy established show ponies or higher PT horses with a better earning potential. Yes, some of those will be duds and some of the low PT horses they threw away might be stars, but in my experience its worth the gamble.

Fun fact the horse with the most points in the whole game has a low PT :)
G Darkened Eclipse

Personally, I would NOT class PT scores in the 10's as "low PT." I'd call them mid-range. Those two are also in their twenties, so they've had several more years showing than the average HaJ horse.

A truly low PT score is less than 1. :D

A created horse that starts at 3 with a PT in the 4 range will level off as soon as it turns 4. Since it will add very little to its score with each training, even if created in the first week of the game year, it may barely get into Level 2L. It has very, very little chance to add many points, no matter how long it stays in the game.

Here is my neutered horse with the lowest PT, 0.6. She is 11 years old, has been showing at 1R since she was created. She IS consistent, but since there are never more than three horses in a class, luck plays a pretty heavy role in the results. Her score is now 3 and crept up to that from 2 when she turned 8, I think. She is finally coming in first or second in the class fairly regularly. Eventually her score may creep up to 4, and she might end up showing at the bottom of 1N. She has a total of 21 points.

I keep her because she's so pretty and I can afford to have a few like her in my stable. :D


Zothardin

I used to every single one and that's honestly what I prefer to do but I've run out of space and now I sell lots of unaltered stock. Until some of my older show pons pass I'll gave to keep selling them