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Your top notch guy is good. He will be a better producer than a normal create would be. His foals should be good. A "C" paper is standard for foundations unless they are exceptional producers.... Then those are B.

Your second guy's tattoo was put on there by one of his previous owner. They used this to identify a certain line they created.

Thank you. Of course, as often happens, an answer leads to a different question: How does "training" differ from "PT"?
By 100% breeding, do you mean no foals will need to be gelded or spayed?
I guess that's two questions, isn't it?

PT is the numerical result of a test that gives you an idea of how well and how long a horse will train. It is short for Performance Testing. You have to have an upgrade (I forget which one.) to perform the test which costs 500hb. Most foundation horses will have a PT in the 9's, although some will be lower. Exceptional show horses and Exceptionally Perfect herd helpers will give you horses with scores between 10 and 10.4. The goal is to get successive generations of horses to have gradually increasing PT scores, so that they will train high enough to get into the upper level classes--5, 6, 7, and 8.

NO horse in this game will always give you nothing but foals that remain intact. 100% breeding means that the horse is the best breeder that any foundation can be. It will still produce foals that are no better than it is and foals that are worse than it is, over a wide range of PT and breeding scores. Only a few foals will be better than their parents. The goal is to breed horses that will be better at showing and/or breeding than their parents, through careful matching of stallions and mares and rigorous culling of their offspring. Exceptionally Perfect foundations will have a breeding ability score of 104% along with a showing ability score of 104%. Carefully bred lined horses will gradually have abilities that creep up over 100%, but we never see that number, only the results of many matings.