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What do you mean?

Are you asking if you should only keep B-papered stallions whose PT scores are 10 or 10.3, and As who are 10.6 and higher?

Ohhh.

Well, the first thing you should keep in mind is that there is not a direct correlation between paper level and PT score. Breeding ability and showing ability (paper level and PT score) are not directly related. When you breed two horses together, it's their breeding ability that the game takes into account, and then uses to decide what a foal's abilities are. However most horses are much better show horses than they are breeding animals, particularly beyond the foundation level, so you can't necessarily use that as a gauge.

The way you CAN use PT scores to set goals is when you're looking at a horse's AFPT, or average foal performance test score. Instead of looking at the stallion's score, look at those of his offspring. Same thing with a mare

If you're starting with C-papered stallions and yellow foundations (instead of the B and Red-papered exceptionals) then yes, you can often get by with 2nd gen horses that are Bs. However once you get past that, if you can afford it, Comparison Testing is the best way to tell if a stallion is an improvement over his sire. You can directly compare their ability, and the game will tell you if the colt is about as good as his sire (plus or minus enough that you always want to keep in mind that it's about) or that one or the other is straight up better. Ideally the colt will be superior to his sire.

Most people will be looking for A papers by the 3rd generation though.

When you're looking at AFPT, you actually want to see at least a half point increase across generations. So 9.5 for foundations, 10 for 2nd generations, 10.5 for 3rd generations, etc.