As to the final point no it does not really matter how the horse develops through racing in respect of breeding, least I have never found it does, just as age does not matter and 20yo who was good and now looks terrible will still breed the good. So if you know the horse is not one you want to keep but do want to breed it, just dump it in the barn as a 2yo.

Letting ai breed with your horses is essential. I have stated this ages ago. I have 5 horses I bought from the ai in my league team. And they all running well in the league


Any horse below 50% potential at 2 I retire. Don't want them in the pool of horses

All of your posts have been helpful, but this one particularly so. It will save me time trying to fully develop every filly before putting her in the breeding barn.

Thanks for info on jumpers. Very helpful again. How about the jumping bar? should it be at a certain level as a 2yo for me to want to develop?

The good news about dumping rubbish into auctions for $, is when I look at the through their sire or Dam's offspring page, most tend to just be "expired" from the game pretty quickly, or at least before breeding themselves. But yes, we are in agreement to just retire them instead of tossing them into AI DNA pool.

I want good fillies and will discard ones with no confidence or no finish etc., but I too focus on the colts that become studs. That is where the real success can come from, it seems.

I breed 2yo’s all the time and have done for years. It makes no difference 2 or 20 you get a version of the horse they could be subject to the randomness of breeding.