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It depends on how much you boost him. I think it takes a full 5% boost to get a C to a B, but I'm not sure. You'll have to paper him again after the boost to see where his new breeding ability is. When it comes to getting more intact foals, it's still more important to breed horses together of equal ability rather than horses of higher ability itself.

Better breeding quality does not mean less snipped foals. On evenly matched Exceptional Producer stallion/mare crosses, I get a 40/60 passing SBA vs getting snipped with them in full pasture bonus. You want show foals so this isn't a bad thing.

If you want more intact foals, then breed him to Yellow mares, perfect foundation quality.

If you want better foals, boost him 5%, breed to red mares but you may not get as many intact foals.

Oh yeah that's right. Horses have to be unbred and under five(?) years old or so to be boosted.

Edit: From the boost token page: "You may add a Plus One Boost Token to any of your horses that are 4 years old or younger, have no foals and have been given less than 5 boost tokens in the past."

If your goal is more foals passing breeding advice then breed to Gen 1 Yellow mares. They would likely help him be closely matched. He is not a perfect foundation so mares that are perfect foundations could technically be slightly better breeding ability than him. I don't know if it would be much of a difference to matter.

Isn't a horse that passes SBA superior to it's sire and dam?

Thanks

Yes, it is expensive, but since I get at least 300,000 hbs daily as my showing bonus payout, it's not that expensive in the long run. Keep all your show horses and you'll get there.