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The mares were all pretty close in pt and all red mares..

Just means the foal wasn't as good as the parents for whatever reason, were they all foundation mares? Can certainly happen with mixed pedigree mares, as their quality can vary a lot even with the same paper level

I looked through your foals, and there were some uneven breedings in the bunch. Yes, all the mares you used have red papers, but that doesn't mean they have the same or close breeding ability numbers. All of the paper levels have a range within them. So a second or third generation mare with red papers is likely to have higher breeding ability than a red papered foundation mare. Since those higher generation mares were bred to a foundation stallion, they produced offspring with better breeding ability than the offspring of foundation+foundation, but because the stallion is inferior to those mares, the foals aren't as good as or superior to their dams. That's why they didn't pass SBA.

@ammit ,yup, blue, pt 9.9 and inconsistent.. I'm not going to do this, but if I'd gmted her to be consistent, would she then pass sba? I didn't think it mattered

@Ammit Why would that be, if consistency only affects showing? Wouldn't the horse be better used as a breeder then, unless consistency is heritable?

If she was Blue papered and parents were B/Red then she must have been spayed due to inconsistency