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I have a boy from my bootstrap herd. He's a Silver Sable Champagne Dun Splash Frame 10.70 A. He's out of a Red papered RS mare buy a Star stallion, if you use breeding advice on him he'll get gelded because of being uneven bred. I have too many colts this year and don't have room for more show horses right not.
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The Breeding Advice (and Strict Breeding Advice) tests compare the foal to both its parents. If a horse is significantly worse than either of them, it won't pass.

With uneven breeding, you are taking one high quality horse and breeding it to a lower quality horse. The foal will end up somewhere in the middle -- so it is always going to fail a BA test, because it is always going to be worse than the high quality parent. That's why you don't want to use BA or SBA when uneven breeding.

@GeneverGinger Thanks for more information about uneven breeding, I had no clue! I read the FAQ on breeding, but I must have been too hopped up on allergy meds because I didn't get that from it. lol The stallions I've been breeding with all produce better than themselves, and my mares are mostly from foundation and papering out red, so yeah. It all makes sense now, and explains why a couple nice mares I bought hadn't been through SBA and then failed it for me.

I have been using the search to look for another champagne dun tobiano pony stud, both for auctions and horses for sale, but so far I haven't gotten lucky. I did get a colt from a herd helper a little while ago that's het for all the traits I wanted, but I'm still hoping for better before next breeding season.

If I luck into a Candy pony, I have a grullo splash tobiano to GMT to champagne, but with my luck the last few days, SBA would geld him right after. lol

SBA is definitely tough sometimes. It took out a few of the stallions I started with, but the only hard one to replace is Whiskey. I didn't quite realize how rare he was in the game until SBA gelded him and I wanted another one. lol

I've been following horse color genetics since the 90's so I thought I'd have no trouble with this game, but it turns out it's not all just breeding for color like I thought at first. I have no doubt there's still a lot I don't even know I don't know yet, but I'm having fun figuring it all out! :D

Thank you for trying, and for the help figuring things out! :)

I have a hom Tobiano herd helper I will try out

Also, just so you know, since SBA is a lot stricter than BA, it's mainly only used as another method of culling and keeping numbers down. If you feel like you need to, then keep on using SBA. But if you bred an expensive foal (through AI for example) or fall in love, if it passes BA it should be good enough to breed from.