Cypress Creek's Steeplechasing Shetlands

[Cypress Creek Elites]

maybe I should be breeding for endurance instead. they seem more inclined to throw colored stamina comments anyways haha... ha.. ha

[Cypress Creek Elites]

58K GP!

[Cypress Creek Elites]

https://www.horseworldonline.net/horse/profile/4023886
This guy happens to be not only a green comment, but the best green I’ve gotten so far- AND has over 57k GP! I guess I know what my next project is

[Cypress Creek Elites]

first green speed filly!

[Cypress Creek Elites]

It finally happened, folks…
We got gold speed!
him

I also popped a 60K and a boy with colored speed AND stamina earlier, and I’ve been getting a bunch of green fillies… we’re making progress!

[Cypress Creek Elites]

Thanks to this lovely man, not only have I locals tested roughly 10 seconds from my first time goal, but I have also broken into the competitive sphere (with some degree of success)! I'm training his successor currently, and I'm hopeful that he'll get a touch closer to 10:20.
This guy will definitely be frozen once he's been replaced- he's been incredible, and I can't imagine parting with him.

[Cypress Creek Elites]

Starburst

This little guy finally got me under 10:25, but (mostly due to the steeple community being active again) he has abysmal WPS. He has, however, been a stellar producer- as of this post, he has 29 foals.

Meteor Shower

This is my current prospect. I've just started breeding and testing him, and he hasn't even touched sub 10:30 yet, but I have high hopes.

[Cypress Creek Elites]

A little update:
I've started another account, to work on a secondary line. (I was also getting a little tired of this line)

my favorite horse from there so far is this thing.


I've successfully gotten horse-type lights and green stamina, but I'd be happy to send out some of the "duds" (heavy but high GP) in case anyone needs them.

[Cypress Creek Test]

So, at this point I believe I've surpassed my main line, and I'm probably going to be working on bringing over some of the genes from here to there, probably starting with this boy. The COI bug has really thrown a wrench in my goal of "managing COI", but at the very least I've maintained some colors that I don't really have much of in the main line of the project (non-silver, dun, roan, seal, black). I've also started the process of actually testing every single prospective brood/stud, which considering I am limited to 5 comps per day and I don't really feel like doing extensive testing might produce some skewed results, but any real stand out horses should really stand out.

These are the mares that have tested below 12:00 so far...
11:58
11:56
and very shockingly considering her small size, 11:51

[Cypress Creek Test]

Well well well, what do we have here?...
National Secret

It looks like I might be able to break under 10:20... this little guy went from 10:24 to 10:21 within a few turns of testing, and fingers crossed I'll be able to get him lower.
In any case, as is he should be fairly capable in steeple (there's not a whole ton of competition currently) and potentially sprint racing and harness racing as well- I tested my last steeple prospect in them and it was overall successful.

Though, COI is getting completely out of hand. I'm not sure how bad it'll be once the bug is actually... resolved... but at the very least I will be able to breed these guys to my other line; they haven't been crossed together recently, so COI should hypothetically drop quite a bit there.