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For most leaderboards, breeding the highest quality possible is the way to reach the top. Bootstrapping is a good way to get you there faster. Once you've reached the natural breeding ability cap, you can start boosting to breed higher PT foals. This also means that you'll be breeding better show horses, which will gradually increase your daily income.
Personally, I've found that my most consistent LB winners are my double-boosted breeders from higher eras and with rare/recessive genes.
My advice would be to look through the LBs to see which club's winners are lower quality or aging out, and work on having some double-boosted breeders specifically for those clubs. You would need to consistently breed them to each other and/or outside double-boosted horses with similar genes every month, register them and the foals in the club you're competing in, and make sure to enter your horses in two shows every week.
The "best producing" and "highest PT" boards are the easiest and fastest boards to get on, while the "___ circuit high point" boards take quite some time to reach the top.

Futurity and Era boards are a little different if you aim for the newest boards, as those competitors can't be boosted to get ahead. New eras are great for having a level playing field if you can join in when they start, or if you can purchase embryos from the higher level horses of those eras.
Eras also have the advantage of only having one requirement, one which can't be edited in the gene mod lab.
If you want to go for double-boosted breeders in a particular era, you'll have a better shot if you go for an era that has only just reached the point of starting to get them (i.e. Era 15), since there's less competition there.

Check out the faq. There is a pretty indepth guide on the lb

@Ambervalleyarabians what are the futurities? And how do I join?

also, i forgot to mention, if you list your own stallions for public breed, and/or pull straws, others will breed to him. he will also be qualified to win awards also.