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Absolutely not.

You know the quality of the stallion. He's B papered, an exceptional producing foundation horse. That's a known quantity, and for a foundation, it's pretty good. (C is 'normal.')

More likely the problem is that the mares are lower quality. Regular create mares (the non-exceptional kind) can only ever be the equivalent of Cs, so he's basically a whole generation of breeding better than they are. Even the Top Notch Producer is only a C-equivalent. It's easier to get intact babies when you're breeding like quality to like quality.

But then there's also a healthy random element to breeding. I have *Gold-papered mares who have given me nothing but spayed/gelded foals, and that's okay. Show horses are important. :D

You *can* get very good babies from an Exceptional stallion and a regular create mare, or Top Notch, or another level of quality. You are just statistically more likely to get more intact babies if you breed similar levels of quality to each other.

I've gotten a blue papered mare out of a B x normal DHH create cross.