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For now, the pointed ones will earn you more hbs short-term. The high PT ones aren't earning you hbs right now and are just taking up space. Keep the ones with points (but don't keep the lower pointed ones) for now. Once you start earning more money and space, you can then keep the high PT ones, and they'll really help you long-term.

For mares and stallions, since you intend on breeding, you should focus on paper, not pt OR points. Your show stock will be what's making you money, so don't worry about the point values of your breeding stock. High PT will not help you advance in breeding, so you should focus on the paper levels, which will actually tell you how good of a breeder that horse is.

Age is everything. Don't cull young high PT horses. You are robbing tomorrow to pay today if you do so.

You could look at it by age brackets. For example take all of your 5 year olds and keep those that are in the top 50% points wise.

For your 2 year olds they haven't had much time to accumulate points, in that case I would keep the top 50% PT wise.

Have you read the FAQ User Guide? That has a lot of helpful information that will answer some of these basic questions that you are running into.
https://mesa.horsegeneticsgame.com/faq.php

Every horse will have a paper level whether they have been spayed and gelded or are still a stallion or a mare. All foals are born intact as a stallion or mare, so they all could be used for breeding possibly and they receive a breeding paper level ability when they are born/created. That doesn't go away once you geld/spay them.

Paper Levels from Worst to Best, C is equal to yellow in ability, B is equal to red in ability, etc.:
Showable Only or Failed
C or Yellow
B or Red
A or Blue
*Star or *Gold
**Star or **Gold
***Star or ***Gold


Better paper level breeding stock will produce foals with better paper levels and better PT scores. Foals with better PT scores are more likely to accumulate more points throughout their lifetime and therefore earn you more money in their lifetime.