I agree there are overall too many horses particularly now there are fewer active stables. Things were very different when i was a newbie. Broodmares were like gold dust and the only way I could breed myself was to send begging letters to mare owners asking if they would sell them to me for a breeding season and then I would sell them back and keep the foal! There was no leasing. a remnant of those days can still be found on the horses page when you open the horse information tab
Now that would be a price we could only dream of getting for most of our horses!
There used to be a limit on the number of horses you could own as well, I think about 300.
I currently have 30 broodmares I don’t really want because I can’t deal with too many racers due to lack of time. an incentive to retire may be helpful but lack of cash is something most older stables don’t have a problem with I don’t know what sort of stable and cash newbies get now but it must be daunting if its still like my starting stable $50,000 one 2yo and 1 3yo. if it is perhaps it would be another idea if we could donate horses to a newbie pool and get points or cash for that. 42,000 horses with less than 50 active players is an amazing number and a purge of deceased or retired horses would also free up some nice names! interested to see what others think