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It's not possible to judge how well a horse will do showing when it's only a foal unless you can Performance Test it. Foals don't train and are entered in classes with only 2 horses in them, so how they place is dependent totally on luck, although there is a little help from their base score assigned at birth.

However, all of your fillies are unevenly bred. This means that their sires have longer pedigrees than their dams, since all of your mares are foundation horses and all of the sire's are of higher generations, some of them quite a lot higher. In the case of Shea Howlin, the sire's breeding rules request that he only be bred to 2nd gen mares, since he's a 2nd gen stallion. You should definitely spay her. It would be polite to contact the sire's owner about whether you may keep her or if his owner would prefer that you sell her directly to Yum Yum.

Since improving breeding ability over time generally is easier if the sire and dam belong to the same generation, these fillies probably will all be a better bet as show horses than as breeding horses. The sires of the other three do not seem to have breeding rules posted, so you are in a different position there in connection to their owners. What you do with them depends on you.

If you have any desire to sell foals or put your horses up for public breeding, you will do better if you breed even generations in the future.

It will not be easy to predict where an inconsistent horse will place in any given show, but many of them turn out to be decent show horses. When I sort my horses by Lifetime Points (which tells me how much they are adding to my weekly Showing Bonus), the number 23 horse on the list is a 19 year old inconsistent spayed mare with 2,731points today (meaning she adds over 1,000 hbs to the showing bonus each week) and a lifetime profit of 11,952 hbs.


http://www.huntandjump.com/horse.php?horseid=2275172

Note: She is 23 out of 4,437 horses. Not a bad record at all. *G*