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I’m assuming you are talking about strict breeding advice — as far as I know a foal has to be superior to both parents in order to pass SBA. Since the sire is *Star that may be what’s causing the problem. It’s not that they’re not suitable for breeding, they’re just not superior to their *Star sire

I actually checked back on her Pedigree lol, she is Bootstrapped ( or un evenly bred ) with a Star Great-Grandfather and a Red Foundation mother.. which means the fillies from that cross usually test Superior to their mother as the * Star parent pulls them up.. most colts would fail testing on this cross as the red Damm would pull them down from the Star Sire..if you own the parents now you can Comp test them against their same sex parent and see what you get. When you "bootstrap" you are usually doing it to quickly build a show herd and most foals will Not pass SBA. I actually have a pasture for my bootstraps to ensure high quality show stock on a monthly basis. I do not usually test the fillies as I breed them back to my current BootStrap Stud to keep the influx of show horses coming. PT Score does Not equal Breedability.. There was a great article a couple of years ago by Confluence Stables about PT Scores..( some updates have been made that are not included in this article , but it might give you an idea of whats what :) ) JUst think about Zenyatta.. she was an AMAZING racehorse but has pretty much Failed as a broodmare when you are thinking about PT Score vs Breedability.

https://www.huntandjump.com/forum/discussion/43811/pt-scores-showing-vs-breeding-a-bit-old-but-good-info#Item_7

What has helped me understand the breeding scores is this: each paper level has a certain range of hidden number scores within them. For example, let's say the whole breeding score scale is numbers 1 through 10. The paper level tells you which section of that scale your horse falls into. 1-2 is C/Yellow, 2.01-4 is B/Red, 4.01-6 is A/Blue, 6.01-8 is *Star/*Gold, and 8.01-10 is **Star/**Gold. You have a stallion with a breeding score of 6.01, so his paper score is *Star; your mare has a breeding score of 7.99, so her paper score is *Gold. Their papers match, but they're on opposite ends of the range covered by their papers, so the potential foal quality they can each produce is a bit different. Let's say you breed them and get a foal with a breeding score of 7.5; that's in the same range, so the paper score will be the same as the parents. However, that foal is only better than one of its parents, not both. If you tested that foal with Strict Breeding Advice, which compares the foal's breeding score to that of both parents, it would fail.
This is where comparison testing comes in handy. It tells you if your foal is close to or better than their same gender parent, as well as how they compare to any other same gender horse you want to test them against, like a generation benchmark. Even if you don't care about even generation breeding, comp testing tells you which end of the paper score range your horse is at. When you only pair horses that are at the same end of the same paper level, you are more likely to get foals that pass all testing.

Zenyatta and Secretariat are great examples of how showing ability/PT score has no impact on a horse's breeding ability. You can have an absolutely fantastic show horse with a really high PT score, but they end up being horrible breeders. Transversely, you can have an amazing breeder that produces the most successful, high PT foals, but they themselves never amount to much of anything in competitions.
PT tells you approximately how old they'll be when they finish training, or at least that's what it seems to indicate, based on what I've observed in my own horses. Training increases horses' skills equally, so more training time means more skills, which leads to leveling off at a higher competition level.
Consistency primarily affects show scores. It has some impact on breeding, but I think that's just because of inheritability; inconsistent horses are more likely to throw inconsistent foals than are consistent horses. The testing messages about consistency relate it to temperament (i.e. "this horse is very inconsistent" means it has a very flighty temperament and is unsuitable for breeding).

Fiddler, I meant RL studs, xD They are noisy and distracted. I’m fine with pixel studs. I can leave their page if they get too rude, lol

My mom always said that 60% of a foal comes from the mare and as a mare can only have one foal a year, she needs to be better than the stallion. And he needs to be the best money can buy. I know in general DNA is split about 50/50 tween parents, but the ovum also contributes some mtDNA. Is it 10%? No idea. But she was excellent at breeding exceptional horses using that formula.

All that to say, we had two senior studs and three junior stallions, but about 40 mares. And every mare was a jewel. She was proud of her studs but loved her mares. Said studs were nothing w/o those mares’ hard work.

So I was raised with a bias for mares. RL mares. But I know the division of mare people to gelding/stallion people is lopsided; most horse people seem to prefer geldings. My question was more asking if the game considered stallions more important or a bigger influence than mares. If so, I would focus any dollar bucks I spent on them.

you ll find you get more colts than fillies.. I ve found almost a 60/40 ratio from my 100 acre pasture... sooooo in game you usually end up with more geldings than spayed mares.. . In game Mares get a pasture "bonus" they pass on to their foals.. its best if you can to l eave your breeding mares in pasture for as long as possible.. Stallions dont get the bpnus so you can pull them to keep showing them.

There is not one. :) Breeding advice does not even know the gender of the foal when testing.