I've only continued on geld 400 and free range 400 because I was already too far for skipping lol. But also I just kept them at 2 slots and was able to use 3rd for questing. I've finally done the geld quest today, so now I have 2 quest slots.
just win 1st in a horse show, no specifics! checking my sow reports I should have gotten some... but if yours worked then maybe I am remembering wrong and didn't accept the quest until after shows ran.
I caught my WWW boy with a Sherpa so I will never disregard those. I like crafting them as I don't really use the items for anything else - I also get planty of them from my explorers.
I don't like crafting pirate maps for example - because I think the colour tokens are worth more to me as I have never caught anything smart with a pirate map and the colour tokens have given me at least a couple of mares for my bravery program.
I don't mind doing fetch quests and you can still skip only 3 a day so I will always try to do the easier ones no matter the payout so I can reserve my skips for the really annoying ones
I know they are supposed to be a money sink but the old system still didn't pay exactly the same amount for catch 25 vs 50. It's one of the reasons why I always skip gelding quests over 25 because the payout is not worth it for me and I don't use geldings so they are worthless to me.