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I personally find boosts a waste of money, and reserve that only for stud prospects that I really want to keep and are from sires that don't have any sons that papered superior and are about to age out.

That being said, I don't breed for the leaderboards.

Foals can be a range of quality, no matter what level the mare and stallions are at. Say if both sire and dam are the same breeding quality then you can get foals the same quality, foals worse than, and foals better than both those parents, with quite a bit of range either way. If the parents are further apart in quality then the range is bigger, but also harder to get to either extreme. Many of us are trying to keep that small percentage of better foals so each generation increases in quality. As the breeding quality increases then yes so will the PT scores that they can throw, boosting just ups the starting point, which can be an advantage or disadvantage. Individual PT scores don't mean much as they can be higher or lower than sire and dam and doesn't indicate if their quality is higher or lower. Average PT foal scores from a mare or stallion though when you have enough foals to compare can give an indication of the quality of the mare or stallion.

I try not to boost anything too high, simply boost favourite colts just enough to get superior to sire, or some of my foundations to get them to exceptional level