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If the best was a mare spayed by SMA I'd check consistency, as she might have been not a bad breeding proposition but inconsistency pulled her down. And yes as you said her dam might have been the best mare. Were all the mares in the pasture for their 30 days before being bred? Was the stallion at around the same quality as the mares? For myself the answer to those questions would depend on what I'd keep. For instance B papered exceptional stallions to normal create mares, or A papered stallions to red mares may improve your fillies but less likely to get a superior colt. Depends on what you want! I'd probably at least keep the next best few fillies, probably more as long as I knew the mares were all in the pasture for 30 days

Thanks for your reply! :) Haha my problem is that I keep them all too! They are all so pretty lol!
Right, so I just checked and that spayed mare came back as consistent. Her dam has now had two foals and has an AFPT of 11.15 - she is 2nd generation and both of her parents are exceptional producers. They weren't all in there for the full 30 days (I had a mini break from the game, just came back to my horses and decided to try and get them all bred in half the time...not a good idea haha!).
To be honest the pasture with the best one spayed was a bit experimental: I have this 2G stallion that compares best out of all of my stallions and none of my 3G stallions (not his offspring) are superior, only AGA. I haven't bred him much before so I chucked a load of mares in the pasture and bred him to them to see what happened. Some mares were equal quality to him and some weren't, I just wanted to get a decent number of foals to try and see what was going on. My breeding patterns are also rather disorganised anyway! He certainly seems to be a good stallion for improving the fillies but he's causing me a problem with all of my stallions! Not a single 3G stallion from any of my lines has tested superior to him which is a whole different problem haha!

Maybe I will keep some of those fillies since they did pass the new stricter SMA, I need to learn how to be stricter myself!