So, I've been doing jumping Xs since I caught this guy. Unfortunately he's dead, and my Xs have gotten approximately nowhere. I have this stud, and he's okay, but I just feel like they're not progressing, and I'd like to spend more time on my D WBs and AD stock.

So I'm considering either getting rid of all my jumpers, or getting rid of my Xs since they're weak and just keeping the TBs and doing apricot tobis.

help x.x

Hi!

If you do decide to stay with them, I think your best bet would be to throw your mares to outside LB studs for a month or two just to re-strengthen your lines. I do SD RID (decently successfully) and KNN (less successfully) and even though I do have a few high LB boys, it's still better to mix in fresh blood every now and then so that my foals don't all have the same pedigrees and so that my mares can have a shot with different studs. This will give you a much better shot than throwing your mares to the same stud consistently just because you own him. In addition, SD stud fees are often decently cheap so you wouldn't be out too many ebs

thanks Gem! I think I'll do that this RO and next and see if they improve, I've gotten to a point where I've got wk3s at least, so maybe I should stick with them.

I probably just need to do a hard cull of everyone with no wk3 >.>

Yes definitely! I don't keep any boys who don't have a week 3 unless his parents were super strong. I also do culls if they're not all up week 4 and 7.

That's what I do on my SA with D horses, though I've managed to get onto the DABLB without using any public studs ^^

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I culled a bunch of mares with poor breeding histories, impulse-bought a TB boy with good training who was #51 on the JTBLB... 5 of 7 foals were W, so I think I'll keep at it with my jumpers :D

Awesome!!! Best of luck!

Nooo, don't quit! I have some X's you can use, if you'd like!

that's very kind of you, Geek, thank you! If you're doing J Xs/TBs, I'd love to be breeding partners 🥰