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I always breed equal generations together provided they are equal breeding ability ie C/Yellow, B/Red, A/Blue and Star*/Gold*.

If I have a few stallions I can't choose between/not sure on whether a low/high papered horse, I will look at the AFPT of each horse and match the closest together. Always utilise BA/SBA and paper! I always test, paper and PT (and comparison test if a colt) then I colour test - so I don't have the temptation to keep intact just because the foal is 'pretty'/the genes I specifically want!

You don't have to use SBA just to have good horses, it just takes a gen or two longer to really see the hard work! I would look at APFT then, not PT, and then choose horses that way

Just like everything else, a lot of it is going to be hit or miss because of the random factor. You're never going to get 100%. You are taking the right things into consideration, now just DO it!

I try to use generations as a base mark for my breeding. (I think many of you who have been around a while know a thing or two about my stance on that.) I generally try to go for Even studs, and then sort mares based on quality. I also try to push quality with my studs. Since I am hoping to pair down on numbers, and starting to go away from selling as many horses, try to use really high quality boys, on my slew of mares, and the handful that pass free advice should be really good quality and I don't have to spend as much money on advice to spay the foals anyway. I also have the difficulty of colors though, especially at 2g. Have two studs that are really high quality and will probably not have many intact offspring, there is a high B colt from Weekend Wishes I would also like to use, as I like his color and I am more likely to get intact from him. I also have two High B GP boys to use on GP mares, a snowflake for the 2 snowflake girls, and a boy for my kings random line. That is... 7 stallions to juggle mares for with 2g alone. I'm going to be standing on my head come Friday morning.

I have some B horses that comparison test aga to C sire. I don't breed them. I have some that test superior to sire but still aga that first B. I still call them low B, I don't breed them. B horse that tests superior to low B is middle B. I don't breed them if I can help it, but I keep a few intact to comparison test to, to get B studs superior to middle B. These are my high B boys I breed, though I am starting to venture into A and mid A 2 g boys now, but I imagine I will be breeding a lot with the high B boys to get intact foals. These high B boys are superior, to the superior of the first superior to sire colt.