What qualities does everyone look for in order to know whats good stock? I would like to start breeding better stock with goals to having World Class ranked horses but right know i know most of my stock sucks and am not sure who is still keepable and who i should sell or free range?

Keep EEE mares that are at least 4 up week 4 and all up week 5. (I make exceptions for color mares) If they don't produce at least EEE in their first three years, sell them.

The best route really is to use LB broods and straws to get some quality stock. :)

Hi there!

I would recommend keeping anything EEE and above. If you take a look at your barns, you currently have some EEE rated horses; free everything else or in order to make some ebs for RO (breeding is expensive) make your other horses (below EEE rated) show horses. You can make a decent profit off of. I also recommend selecting a specific breed you are going for. It may be SH/ISH or PON based on the stock in your barns. I recommend picking a breed that is easier if you are just starting off and ISH/SH would be that breed - plus, they are super fun to work with! Then just make sure you are tracking and training your horses every week. I understand it is time consuming but the more closely you track the training of your horses, the better off you will be, trust me! You will be able to better pair your horses to studs and determine if your horse may not produce well. Any horse that isn't up to 2 by the fifth week of training may not produce well but again, it depends on how you pair the horse as well. I prefer horses are up to 2 in 3 areas minimum by week 4 but sometimes that doesnt happen and they still produce pretty decent foals. The foals just may not be as strong. I know this has probably gotten long and may seem a little confusing so feel free to pm me any questions you may have. My main account is Daranyx and this is my SA :)

You decide what good stock is. Do you intend on breeding horses that do well in all three disciplines (AD stock) or would you rather want to concentrate on one discipline (SD)? That would change your view of what's good or not. Do you want to add color? Or a specific pattern- those things all determine what's good stock or not.

If you want to go for AD, Daranyx and FirstLightFarms already gave some good advice. If you want to go for a specific discipline alone, you only need to focus on the rating of this discipline and nothing else.

In general if you're looking for new stock, take first a look at a horses production rather than it's training. A good dam should produce her rating or better 50% of the time. With studs, be strickter, they should produce their rating or better 75% of the time. A fancy training is worth nothing if production sucks. Training gives you a general idea of a horse's potential, but production is the more solid option to determin the horses strength or weakness. This is assuming the mare/stud was bred to decent partners - always consider that the mare/stud may have been poorly matched.

Thank you everyone