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Other people may have slightly different definitions, but for me a line is a set of horses I’m going to Breed over generations (evenly or bootstrapping) towards or within a specific goal color/pattern goal. (I try to always breed for high quality)

For my lines I start from foundations, I don’t tend to mix things up very much (for instance, my KP line is liver/chocolate S+ KP, so all my mares are red based with two Kit patterns and my stallions were DP S+ Hom KP, so all the foals are ideally suited to that goal). My Bootstrap line is harder because I’ve had to start with a relatively limited number of horses that have the genes that I want and still try to breed towards both a color and a quality goal.

If you start with Exceptional Foundations, you can hit Star/Gold by gen 4 if you cull hard and use the very best quality stallions you can get at each generation and utilize the pasture bonus.