HGG Community Forums

Safe to say, she is NOT going to be a successful show horse. :D

As @Taliesin said, her PT is irrelevant. Meet my terrible girl

zz How Low Can You Go

Check out her daughter's name.

Well when it's like that, the only place it can go is up. Does anyone know if it's possible to have a negative pt? I saved my inconsistents, I'm going to try to breed them to my super consistents and see what happens.

As for the daughter, priceless. Maybe we should have a thread for the best but weirdest names. I've got one i think should be called flood fill.

I got the negative PT, but it was from two failed paper horses.

The brindle mare here papered yellow. Her PT won’t affect her foals.

PT only affects show ability, higher PT means longer better showing
it has nothing to do with breed ability

Mom Stinks V2

Her new son XD

Here are the comments about those low PT scores:

Less than negative 1
<-1 "Well, you tried to get your horse in for the Performance test but, it kicked the trailer the whole time, screamed and in general made a fool of its self. Then it reared up and bolted before you could even get it into the ring! Good thing Dorris could did not see it. Let's just say your horse is bad. Real bad. I think Dorris would have had a heart attack."<br />
Less than zero
<0 "What are you some sort of nut job screw ball or something? Are you sure that is not a llama? Please just turn around and put that thing back in the trailer."<br />
Less than 1.1
<1.1<br /> Your prospect was so bad you actually caused Dorris to faint dead away when she saw it. This is a very bad sign. Oh how the other stables are going to talk about this!

@OopsDotCom
PT scores in foundation creates have nothing to do with their breeding ability. The mare posted is a Blackest Night create so probably has 100% breeding quality. Although I thought they had 100% showing as well, obviously not! However she's passed BA so just as good as any other normal create foundation anyway.
In lined horses you don't breed high PT to high PT to get higher PT foals, you breed high quality breeders together. The ones that produce high PT don't necessarily have high PT scores themself. You don't identify them by their own PT scores but by their paper level, and comparison testing. Or you can simply breed them and see if they produce high PT.

Thank you everyone for your explanations. I am learning a lot about breeding from this thread. So far I haven't had the courage to do sba on my rank specials, but I'll check more thoroughly on the others. I had forgotten that pasture horses didn't show, and stuffed all my mares in the pastures for breeding. Now I get to take them out, and this season I'll be paying far more attention to papers.

Regular Blackest Nights have 100% breeding & showing ability- they're perfect foundations.

However, since she was created during a Mourning Veil event, she has the Blackest Night tattoo & colors but the quality is unpredictable, like a regular foundation.

Post about this from the Mourning Veil event (for player CompassPoint, who had passed away):
https://www.huntandjump.com/forum/discussion/43176/blackest-night-spayed

@SherwoodStables, thank you! That's how it works for Brindle Breakout events too, though regularly rolled Brindle Breakouts are Perfect, right?

@Taliesin yep exactly!
I think Ammit said that events will never have guaranteed perfect/exceptionally perfect horses. We do have exceptional producer events that will all paper Red or B, though.

Okay, so here's what i've picked up from this thread, please correct me if i'm wrong.
Breed best producer to best producer to get (hopefully) high pt scores.
Use SBA.
Even if it has a low PT score, it's the breeding ability that counts.

So would I breed my Ex Perfects and Ex Producers together?

Oh, and If you breed a lower pt score but the breeding ability is higher than parents, would it get snipped for not being better than parent?

Ah, thank you! Like I said, I'm learning a lot from this thread.