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It could be that your A papered studs just aren't as good as your Blue-papered mares and the gap between them makes it less likely they throw a passing filly?

If your Mares are comparatively too high it's the colts you need to test, but personally I test all of my horses.

I do not test them against their parents. I SBA test them, and then test them against what I believe is my highest papered horse of that gender. When a horse test superior to the benchmark I then use that horse for future testing (if money isn't an issue you go back and retest all of that gen).

I comp test all my foals that pass SBA and don't paper lower than their parents.
Even if a filly papers red and her foundation dam is yellow, I still comp test. I spay the girls that test AGA. I automatically spay all fillies that paper red at 3rd gen, I require blue papers, and I still comp test the blues. You get the picture. That way I only keep superior breeding stock.

^^ This is what I do. I keep one colt from each stud, and turn the rest of the superior A's to fillies. It's expensive though, breeding and GMT'ing foals last season cost me 4mill.