Custom Barns

[Ali Sills]

Hey all,

I bought custom barns and maybe I just don’t know how to set it up or use it, but I kind of hate it. How do you have your custom barns set up? How do you use them? Give me your pro tips!

Ali

[Kelly Haggerty]

I have an "Icebox" barn for my late bloomers and steeplechasers. A foal barn with the sire and dam sire listed. And yearling barns for each division, and I add others when I need to work equipment.

[Rochelle Bos]

My barns are:

RACING BARNS
MONEY MAKERS Barn* - the default racing barn but with custom columns set how I like them
SPECIALS Barn - horses I race, but only the ones who run in stakes
CONDITIONS Barn - all my other racers, horses start here and can “graduate” to the Specials Barn
FS Improvers? Barn - pretty pedigree things that should have galloped better than they did
R Flat Pe Barn - Peak horses of running age who generally are allowance and below. Most get a shot at the track at least once. They live here until they are 4.5 before getting retired if they don’t improve.
R Flat Pr Barn - Progressive horses, same as the peak barn, but usually they don’t get a track attempt until they peak
R Flat L Barn - Late Bloomers, same as the other two
NEW PLAYER Barn - any allowance+ that I get grumpy racing and am willing to lease out

NIGHT CLUB Barn* - basic breeding barn with my custom columns
NURSERY Barn* - foals only
TINDER Barn* - studs only
B Favourites Barn - My favourite broodmares
B Maybe Barn - my maybe I’ll breed her maybe I won’t barn
B Lease Barn - mares for leasing
B Sell Barn - mares for selling
B BSA Barn - all my freshly retired runners get dumped into here
B Foals Hope Barn - my favourite babies get sorted here and when they turn a year old they go into the Specials training barn so I can find them easily haha this was more useful when I was breeding 300+ foals

NEWBS Barn* - training barn, custom columns
T Specials Barn - my favourite foals start the year here, then my stakes+ get sorted here after, they get special training treatment
T Flat Pe Barn - all my peak yearlings except stakes+ go here, move to the peak racing barn at 2
T Flat Pr Barn - all the progress minus stakes+, move to the progressive racing barn at 2
T Flat L Barn - late bloomers minus stakes+ move to the racing LB barn at 2

[Laura Smith]

I keep it pretty simple.

Racing barns:
Active Runners (I do all my entering from here - important columns are last raced, entered for, dam and gallop - I always reverse sort by last raced and filter by not entered and just go down the list)
2YOs equip not done (the B-string ones I didn't get figured out before the year changeover and didn't want to pay $ for. They mostly sit around and get regalloped twice a year)
Runners to wait on (generally decently bred late bloomers that I also gallop a couple times a year)
To Sell
Waiting for AJ (sit at my farm and wait until they turn 5)

Breeding barns:
Main Breeding (all broodmares that I intend to keep/breed for the year)
Mares to sell
Mares to lease
Stallions
Foals (this is a smartbarn)

Training barns:
Yearlings Equipped (these automatically transfer to the racing barn at 2)
Yearlings No Equip (whatever's left in here at the end of W16 goes to the 2YOs no equip barn)