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Depending on what you like about each of those genes, I would say go for trying to combine your SNF/KP/GP into one line! You could also put your mushroom and SpM together, and then maybe have one fantasy line? Three lines is a nice number to work with, I think.

Especially with the SNF/KP/GP, you have a lot of potential culling criteria, which always makes a line easier to work with. The more reasons you can find to cull, the less horses you keep intact, the cheaper your breeding is, and the more show ponies you get!

You'd need all horses to eventually have minimum of het E, het A, het lp, and two kit genes, which isn't overly complex but still enough so to have relatively small lines and manageable goals.

GP shows on brown and wild bay, so you could have one, all or pick and choose.

I kind of went through the same thing last year, and now I have a plan that is working for me with a manageable number of breeding horses. I had so many things I liked it was getting overwhelming. I looked through my stock and started to combine things. To help decide, I spent a little bit of time searching gene combos and getting ideas of what I liked together. For example, now I have dun W3 KP and pearl W10 GP, when before they were seperate. I was running SBA, and was really strict with snipping based on papers, consistency, etc, but I was still up to my eyeballs in stallions, or so it felt like. The stallions that passed then had to pass my personal color test, and by combining lines it made it hard for them to pass the test, knocking back the number of stallions I had significantly. It is easy getting a good pearl stallion, GP stallion and W10 stallion, but getting a good pearl W10 GP stallion in one go is challenging. It can be frustrating when the got-every-gene boy papers low and gets snipped, and the missed-every-gene boy papers great. I personally enjoy the challenge, but some may not. The mares go through the same process testing, but I am looser on color with them, unless they are out of hand. Not every line got combined, and some got the axe altogether but being way specific on color has helped get to what I feel like is a manageable amount.