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In my opinion, they hold value because you have some assurance of a particular quality. Perfect foundations I think are a good bet for new players to start with, they ought to be good foundation stock to breed and do double duty as decent show horses. Higher ranks offer an engineered DNA profile for color breeding, better than average breeding or show potential, or both, like the Exceptionally Perfect, which I think of as being a step up from Perfect Foundations. And the Specials have collecter's item market value. There are absolute gems that come out of lower rank hh or random creates, it's just more of a gamble.

Or at least that's how I view them.

What makes a horse a Perfect Foundation is that you are guaranteed a horse with 100% breeding ability (highest C and Yellow quality), 100% showing ability (9.9 PT every time), and perfect consistency (will score exactly the same thing in both shows each week).

All Rank Specials are either Perfect Foundations or Exceptional Producers, or Exceptionally Perfect, depending on which Rank Special it is. Exceptional Producers will paper B and Red, but their PT scores will vary and some may be Inconsistent. Exceptionally Perfect horses paper B and Red, have 10.4 PT scores and are perfectly consistent.

P.S. There are NO dumb questions about this game. It's amazingly complex and if ever everything about it was written down, it would probably take up as much room as a copy of War and Peace. :D

Also remember breeding ability and showing ability are separate.

Expros have exceptional breeding ability but they can very well be crap at showing with low PT’s and inconsistent.