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Every horse has a breeding score which determines the quality of its foals. While this is a single number, there is a built in random factor that allows for a wide range of possible results, especially when there is the combination of the breeding scores for two parents. If you breed two perfect foundations together, for instance, the Performance Test score for the foal can range all the way from 8.9 to 10.5. (This is not an indication of the foal's breeding ability, by the way, only an indicator of how quickly and how high it will train.) Perfect foundations have a PT score of 9.9.

When you put a mare into the pasture and leave her there, she does get what we are calling a "breeding boost." What this means is that the lower end of the possible range of her foals PT's is whittled away a bit each day, for up to 30 days, where it stabilizes. This means that the mare's contribution to the mix that produces the foal's PT will come from the higher end of her possible range and not the lower end. Of course, the stallions in the pasture still contribute the full range of possibilities from their breeding score, but it does mean that most of the foals bred in pasture will be less likely to be neutered by the Showing Aptitude Test, Mare Advice, and Gelding Advice. When you remove her from the pasture, she loses that "boost" and goes back to normal. The boost does not increase her overall breeding ability; it does not raise her given breeding score.

Here's a link to a post on our old forum that gives a very good explanation of how breeding results are determined.

http://www.kinetocoredesign.com/showthread.php?38512-PT-Scores-Showing-vs-Breeding

http://www.huntandjump.com/forum.php#/discussion/3811/what-are-the-advantages-long-term

If i didnt understand properly please tell me ! My english is not perfect and sometime i mess up!

Not all foals are better, it's just the mare is more likely to produce to the best of her ability