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Breeding and papering
  • Quick question if anyone has time to read.
    Say for example each horse is given a percent mark which represents his breeding quality. Example higher level B stallion is 88%. You breed him to a lower level Red mare, 82%. I know a lot of it is chance, but say your foal papers B with an assumed rating of 85%. (Again, I know nothing is garaunteed, this is just an example and we are not meant to know everything). You give him a 5% boost which say gives him an 89-90% rating, either high high B or low low A. He now, in the numbers of things should paper higher and is now higher quality than his sire, where as before the boost he papered lower. This is disregarding consistency and performance testing.
    My question is, if you breed him to a mare of equal quality, in that hypothetical 89-90% range, does the system take into account the papering of his sire and dam? Does it negatively affect the chance of the baby being altered? Again, I know there is a lot of chance in this game, as in real life and that sometimes really nice horses come out of lesser quality parents and vice versa. I'm more just curious if each horse's "percent" quality as a breeding horse is based on the individual.
    Another example, if you breed an 80% B stud to a 79% yellow mare and by chance get a B colt and say the percent quality (for lack of better wording) is 80% and another breeding of an 80% B stud and 80% red mare result is another colt papers B and 80%, are they considered equal? (Again disregarding performance). Or is the yellow/B colt going to be considered less than the red/B colt because of the papering of the parents?
    Hope that wasn't convoluted too much, just curious! Thanks
  • I did read this about 3 times to try and see what you were getting at!

    Horses with higher level breeding ability will on average produce foals with higher level breeding ability. But you can have, for example, a C-papered stallion produce an A-papered colt, and that A-papered colt will be just as good as an A-papered boy with a B-papered sire, it just happens a whole lot less often.

    This is why comparison testing is so awesome.
  • So basically, in a nut shell, once a horse is papered and given a rating the parents and ancestors don't have any future play in the quality and rating of future generations?
    Post edited by veetiepony1 at 2017-07-08 11:02:31
  • Correct. Technically the horse's papers don't influence anything at all: they're only there for your benefit. The horse's breeding ability is locked in when it's born/created (or boosted) and never changes. You don't have to paper them at all for it to be there, it just lets you know approximately what the rating is.

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