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Re: "they're all bred to A papered stallions, so I can't account for any differences there."

Oooohhh...yes you can. :) Each stallion grade is a tier..a range of breeding ability. You have A's that are almost star quality, and A's that are barely above a B. Unless you are breeding them all to the exact same horse, you can not assume the stallions are equals.

And the comparison tool won't guarantee it either. Let me give you an example of something I recently had happen:

I had three stallions by the same sire. All were the same paper level. I wanted to find out which was best, so I used the comparison tool.

Stallion A vs Stallion B came out "about as good as".
Stallion B vs Stallion C came out "about as good as".

So they are all equal, right? Wrong.

Stallion A vs Stallion C came out that stallion A was way better than C.

So what we had here was three horses with the same paper and three different levels of quality. Stallion B was in the middle and "about as good" as ether of the others (remember "about as" has lots of wiggle room), but stallion A was significantly better than C.

And all were the same paper level.

Thanks, Gael. Someday I hope to be able to afford to compare test all my stallions.