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I used to breed only champagnes! Silver black appaloosas are gorgeous!

I used to have many specific lines but now have two "kitchen sink" fantasy lines plus one "EE aa StySty sasa PP" riding pony line. Much simpler and I still get all the pretty colors!

I’m breeding: Black Splash Tobiano, Black Appaloosas & Homozygous Snowflakes. Those are my 3 Main lines on here. I also love to have Fun sometimes and I’ll breed 2 of my favorite Herd Helpers together. Like Vault of Stars to Peach Ice Cream.

@boredaf- Number one PT has nothing to do with breeding ability she just won't be great in shows and so won't likely be a great show horse. Secondly basic black apps are relatively common and she is likely Yellow papered, so breeding her to a C papered stud would be a better chance at an intact foal instead of to an Exceptional Producer. BA testing her would also give you a much better chance at getting passing foals from her, unless your just breeding for color which is ok too! Hope this helped! :)

@boredaf
9.7 isn't a bad PT for a foundation, but as said it has no relation to breeding ability anyway. She's untested though, if you run breeding advice it would be a good start to see if she's worth breeding. Breeding to an exceptional is good if you want to bring up the quality of her foals, but you likely get more spayed and gelded too

^^^ wait what?! So will an ExPro horse with a higher PT be a better breeder than an ExPro with a lower PT?

Or is that trend only apparent for random foundations/lined horses?

Either way - this is news! :-B

But wait ; There are several Exceptional Producers that have lousy PT scores, so how is this going to work?

Does that also apply to lined horses, or just foundations?

...wow I did not mean to kick that off heh.

@horseangel thanks, at the time I asked my expro was actually my only stud lol I wasn't choosing him for any specific reason but this was very informative and will be extremely helpful for future decisions now that I've bought/been gifted some papered horses.

Edit: So to clarify you can breed foundation horses based on PT. Lined horses do NOT pass PT on as a genetic trait. However a lined horse with a higher breeding ability will (barring bad luck rolls) produce a horse with higher PT.

Did I get it right? and what if anything determines the breeding ability of a foal?

Cool and sorry I was directing that last part to the thread at large. I'm aware you don't exist to be my walking encyclopedia. Though you make a very good one.

Yes, as lined horses with good breeding ability do produce better PT foals on average. But remember, there are ranges of breeding ability. Sometimes they produce at the best of their ability, and other times, not so good.