I am debating when to start my next "project" it will probably be a horse and the goal for me would be to get him/her into the top 25 ranking.

So my question is How much money should i put aside before i begin to start this venture.

Factoring in private shows and horse tix and other expences?

At least one billion, I'd imagine! Tickets get expensive.

Siib did an awesome breakdown of this somewhere - I will have to try and find the link! But yes, I would agree with Jaya that you'd probably need in the neighborhood of 1billion.

Found the thread I was thinking of where Siib did a rundown! Prices are a little off from today but you could use it as a framework:

"1. Doing the math you should look at it like this:

 Roughly 250k a spot for private shows, 500k for the pair.
500,000 x 100 (shows) = 50m.
50m x 17 (trainable weeks unless you deage) = 850m
If you DO deage by 2 = 950m

THEN you need to think about the cost of tickets which right now I believe are back down to 200k (yay) so that's 10m per a set. 
If you start with store pairs you can easily hit 5mil just off of the 100 private shows BUT that means that you need a 1m bonus from tickets.
Tickets give you 3,750 points which means you need roughly 277 sets to hit a little over 6mil points bare minimum. 
Each of those sets will run you 10m. 

That's 2.77bil. 

So roughly I'd say you need close to 4bil starting, unless you plan to make money during the project.

2. Private shows > tickets. This is where the majority of your points will come from & it'll be the cheaper method.

3. I love doing store lines and keeping them going, my Star lines have goals of no less than 5mil each generation, and that started with my foundation store lines! I'm adding in a new set of store lines to them now. HOWEVER it is more costly to do it that way as you'll need tickets (especially to get to 6mil from 0). My $ esitmate above is based on doing store lines vs. doing something with points from birth which obviously will give you a boost!

4. Definitely use the extra energy! If you buy the perm. extra energy you can do 100 shows a week, 40 shows a day even. So this is awesome, especially when buying private shows where you already get more poitns just because of the limited entries."

Okay, so I was wrong. She's estimating almost 3billion to get to 6mil, and you'd need more than that to get on the rankings. :O 

Thanks for finding that, Mero, that's really helpful!