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It's a measure of their unseen breeding ability/quality. So the A/B/Blue/Red papers etc are a general indication of their breeding quality, but BA, and more so SBA, compares a foal to their parents and snip them if they are considerably worse. So the ones that are snipped you usually don't want to be breeding from anyway!

I am even stricter. 2nd gen colts must be a paper level higher than their sire. If they are from ET, and I can afford it, I will boost a special,superior colt so it becomes a paper level higher.

I start with B stallions - yellow & red mares in a pasture.
2nd gen must be A stallions and Red/Blue mares.
3rd gen is superior A stallions/Blue mares.
4th Gen is star stallions (hard, but happens) and Gold/Blue mares.
5th Gen is all Star (and superior)/Gold.

I test everything lol, I'm not as strict as some, the boys have to be sup to sire or they get the snip

I start with Expro mares and Expro studs, my pastures are not as big as some and since the change I haven't been able to get the full amount of time that I used too, hence the not as strict with the mares. They have to pass strict testing though.

I do have a small amount of Yellows, (No C Studs) but they are the pasture and specific things that I am working on. (Brindle, Liver, pretty ... LOL)

3rd gen mares must be blue unless its AI or a outside line, then I'm just breeding for the genes ( Or my Bring Back the Sun line)
4th I let a little off, Boys can be an A but still sup to sire, girls blue (I do have a couple of Star breedings at this level)
5th gen is star and gold (unless its a AI breeding or outside breeding)

I don't boost that much, I try not to use boosted lines as I have found farther down the line it gets harder and harder to get them through just the testing. I even breed foundation to foundation, 2nd gen to 2nd gen ectra

Looking forwards to a comparison for the mares (if that will be a thing) ... that would cut down on a huge number of mares that I'm hoarding cause "they are pretty" lol

I do the same as Visions, except I am still a bit lenient on the 4G boys. I will keep 4G As that are superior. I only let the absolute most special 2G boys stay if they are "only" superior to their sire, I prefer them to be superior to an expro even if they come from a C sire.

Dang, my boys will be wanting to jump ship if they hear all of you. ^_^

Except for my black arabs line, my standards are:
Foundation: B & Red (very rare yellow)
2nd gen: A (but not the low As, I have a slightly boosted A they have to be AAGA) and Blue (I've culled probably 90% of my Reds, those kept have passed SBA and are special in some fashion)
3rd gen: A that tests superior to the 2g benchmark and Blue
4th gen: Star and Gold (I've been culling all 4th gen Blues that I kept due to color over the last 6 months)
5th and up: colts must test superior to sire and to benchmark stud, mares must pass SBA and my goal is that they will be culled around 10 yrs old or so based on amount of intact foals but this happens maybe once a real life year or two lol.

My black arabians are from C/Yellow foundations so they have a one level difference. 2nd gens are B/Red, 3rd are A/Blue, 4th are A/Blue and 5th are supposed to be Star/Gold but I'm not getting that far yet.




oh, and it's "about as good as" - not "as good as". Very subtle difference, but there is one. Example using Stallion Alpha, Stallion Omega and Stallion Zed.

Alpha tests worse than Zed.
Omega tests aaga Alpha, and then also tests aaga Zed.

Because you've tested Alpha and Zed against each other as well as against Omega, you then know that Omega really is slightly better than Alpha but is slightly worse than Zed - despite testing 'about as good as' both.


edit because of typo!

My one C (Foundatio) stallion, so far, seems to be outproducing my B (Foundation) stallion. And my other C stallion, too, actually. It will be interesting to see how this breeding season goes! Tomorrow I breed the first group of mares to the B stallion! \:D/