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How do they compare to an exceptional producer? That's what I use as a benchmark for my 2Gs from perfect foundations. To stay intact in my barn they have to be at least as good as expro but I prefer superior. Otherwise, yeah I'd max the worst one if I were going to max any. If you did max all of them, they would have the same breeding ability and should have the same PT, though that can be affected by consistency since maxing doesn't make perfect consistency.

They don't need to be the same era to comparison test to them. I've been using the same expro stud and expro mare just for comparison testing my 2Gs for ages.

As I understand it, maxing gives the maximum possible breeding and showing based on the parents, meaning that a horse with a lower PT score or breeding ability will benefit more from maxing than a horse with higher abilities. So I would max the lowest horse which would improve her the most and provide the bigger boost to the afpt of the parents as well (if that's part of your goal here).

Can happen if the sire is way way worse than the dam.

Maxing gives you the maximum potential of the parents, not just showing ability

Boosting gets them past the best that their parent combo can produce.