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It makes sense. She's superior to her dam, but you then realized her dam isn't up to the standard for her generation, so being superior to her doesn't necessarily mean this filly is up to the standard for her generation. It doesn't mean she isn't either, but you don't know.

Fortunately, this is easy to fix! Pick a mare from her generation that you know is where you want her to be, then comp test this filly to that 'benchmark'. If she's about as good as, then she's where you want her to be. If she's superior, then she's surprisingly even better! And if she's worse than that benchmark, then she's lower quality than you want from this gen.

I do this all the time with Red fillies from Yellow dams and B sires. I comp them to a Red mare who is superior to her Red dam. If the foal doesn't test at least AAGA that benchmark mare, I know she's not up to the quality level for that line/generation

Yay, I'm glad she 'passed'!
And I get that; I try to strategically plan my comp testing, cuz it can add up! But I think you'll find this one was free ;)

You're welcome!