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10.4 is an Exceptional Foundation ; Regular creates are usually Yellow papered and top out at 9.9

Yep, I'm wondering about the breeding ability of regular creates within the yellow paper range. If a regular create or color herd helper create passes SBA, is the breeding ability as good as the breeding ability of a perfect foundation? Comparison testing has a margin for "about as good as" so it doesn't guarantee that a horse is exactly as good as another. So far, I've never had a yellow-papered foundation comparison test worse than a perfect foundation, but that doesn't mean that they're exactly as good. I'm mostly wondering if I should be greatly preferring my mares that are proven to be perfect foundation either by herd helper or by getting picked up by the foundation rescue, or if SBA-passed creates are just as good as breeders. PT doesn't matter to me in this case at all.

@annismyrph I know that the foundation rescue is all perfect foundations. But there's a range within yellow papered just like any paper level and I'm just wondering if there's a way to tell if a yellow-papered regular create is as good as a breeder as a perfect foundation. Is SBA a strict enough measure? Or is it possible an SBA-passed regular create could be worse than a perfect foundation, breeding ability wise?

So far the few I've done have tested "as good as" but there's still a margin of slightly superior or slightly worse than with aga results.