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Hi all
I've been cooking up a post like this for some time, but the addition of the max ability boost has made it pretty glaringly obvious that I am struggling with my higher generation horses. (absolutely love this new addition to the advanced facility pages though, hopefully I'll have better luck trying it on my lower gen ponies)

For reference, I breed for liver warmbloods as my main and largest line. I started with my own foundations ect, and have bred for real life years to reach the point I am at now, which is eleventh generation, even-bred horses. I unintentionally created a stallion/mare gap by keeping a couple as good as fillies (back when I was in the 8th-9th generations and struggling to get any intact foals at all). I have attempted to fix that by taking my best superior 11 and 10gen mares and cloning them, then boosting them. some gender swapping and comparison testing has told me that most of these new boosted clones should be similar in breeding ability to the studs I am breeding them too.
I have flushed the boosted clones for the last 2 seasons and have had embryos catapulted out everywhere, but have yet to have any even test as good as sire/dam.
I tried the Max ability boost on a couple of these foals (stud x boosted clone, foal failed BA, tested worse ect) just to see what would happen.

This one was not even able to be ability boosted, as in, he is already the maximum breeding ability that his sire and dam could have produced.
https://www.huntandjump.com/horse.php?horseid=15882627
He is worse than his sire, worse than his grandsire and worse than his great-grandsire (all following the sireline). For reference, his sire (11 Kings Landing) is about as good as the grandsire (10 Westeros) and Westeros is superior to his sire (9 Lone Wolf).

https://www.huntandjump.com/horse.php?horseid=15882560
This guy (also a 12th gen Kings Landing x a different boosted clone mare) was able to be max ability boosted, and still tested worse than sire afterwards.

https://www.huntandjump.com/horse.php?horseid=15882378
This filly is a 11th gen from a different 10g stud x a 10G boosted clone
She was able to be max ability boosted, and still tested worse than dam. tested as good as the dam's dam.




Anyway, this has been a huge wall of text so kudos to anyone that takes the time to read any of it, I guess my question is:
My crosses, that test about as good as each other in terms of breeding ability, are not able to produce anything even close to their own quality, which has been proven to me by trying out the Max ability boost feature. By my understanding that would rule out simple bad luck. Anyone know what I might be doing wrong, or where my bad apples might lie?