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She’s only 16 so she has 4 months still I wouldn’t be interested as my mare to stallion ratio is out of control

Others might be interested but I would wait it doesn’t hurt to flush her now just hang on to one of her foals so you can still use her eggs

Once she passes the game doesn’t know who she is unless a foal is holding on to her linage :)

You only have her guaranteed next season. Once a horse turns 17, they are at risk at aging out every rollover after. If you are wanting her to contribute to your lines, I would pull eggs every 5 days next season, then flush at the end to get as many eggs as possible.

You don’t know what will make a horse a profitable show horse, your best bet is to try to keep as many foals as you can that get snipped and make sure they train every week and get shown twice a week. The horse levels off with training when their age reaches their PT score, so the higher their PT score the longer they train, which means they can reach higher showing levels which gives more points = more HBs.

Finding pointed creates in auction is good, you can get them fairly cheap and just hang onto them, again making sure they train each week and get their two shows. They will give your daily bonus a boost until the foals get their feet under them and can start earning their keep. Also finding those higher PT foals and yearlings that get put in auction will help, not at first but later when they are bringing in lots of points.

And to throw onto that, high PT doesn’t 100% of the time mean they’ll level out in a good place, and quantity also effects your show herd. Three 9.90 PT horses usually will end up bringing you in more than one 11 PT horse. In other words, save up for barns and fill them with showers, not breeders, and you’ll be set. I have 2 1000 stall barns of show ponies and between them and the breeders that are sitting around in barns and auto-showing anyways, I have a 300k/night bonus. Most people recommend 3-1 showers to breeders if you want to fund your breeding with enough to spare. I have more like a 1-1, but I only breed a portion of them each year and the rest of the breeders are sitting in barns acting like showers until it’s their year, so in practice it’s probably more like 5-1. Tying back to the PT, I don’t even cull my show ponies anymore, I chuck everything snipped into the barn and let it earn points. If you’re strapped for space, yes, higher PT and more starting points is what you want, but if you can just go for raw numbers by snipping some of your breeders, that’s a great strategy too. It’s more important to show everything consistently (either by premium or by hitting the show button every chance you get) than it is to hold off until you find the perfect PT.

I wouldn't waste money flushing her unless you have people wanting to buy her eggs. She's very pretty, but realistically she's an unpapered uneven g2/g3 with quality probably around the foundation level so may not be in great demand. But if you want the eggs for breed her line on yourself definitely do, or as others have said, collect an egg every 5 days and flush at the end of the season for the most amount of eggs. ET is expensive though, and unless you have lots of spare cash it's best reserved for those absolute faves!