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It can happen, because the papering for the mares overlaps. She could be a high yellow, almost red.
If things were lined up in papering for Mares and studs, then yellow would only produce C studs, and Red only B studs, Blue only A studs and Gold only Star studs, but because the papering system is flexible and overlapping you can get a A papered stud out of a red mare, or a B out of a yellow mare, or on the flip side get a A out of a Gold mare instead of a Star. There has to be some variance to balance.

Yellow for a foundation mare is very normal, I have perfect foundation mares, the best a regular foundation can that paper yellow. Those same mares have even given me A papered colts on occasion. Also very normal for a foundation mare to throw a B papered colt! I don't bother papering foundation mares because it doesn't really tell you much, the yellows aren't usually worse than the red ones