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To elaborate slightly on what Abbey has said, from my understanding PT has 2 roles in the game.

If you PT any horse, the score they achieve gives you an idea of how long and well they will train before Levelling Off and remaining at that show level for the rest of their lives. Horses with high PTs train for more weeks, thus progressing up the levels to shows where you have the potential to make more hbs. This tells you nothing about that horse's breeding ability or even technically about how well they will show, since showing well requires some degree of luck.

However, PTing a horse's offspring tells you about that sire or dam's breeding ability. The Average Foal Performance Test or AFPT can be a good indicator of breeding quality, so if you are culling a pasture of mares with 3 or 4 foals each, all to the same sire(s), all with the same pasture bonus, you can then go through that pasture and cull the mares with lower AFPTs because they are inferior breeders to those with high AFPTs.

And on yet another note, I love it when your score is so low it makes Dorris faint! I can totally imagine the scene, showing up to a snooty performance test with all the gleaming, shiny, fully braided amazing pedigreed horses and here you are with some sway-backed cow-hocked knock-kneed broodmare that happens to be an amazing mama but she's still all fuzzy with her winter coat and has a pasture long mane and tail, just a basic groom and no shoes on. Watching the judge just faint dead away....Makes me giggle for sure!

Oh, Cheers! I have always loved that reaction of Dorris to the non-show mare, but never went quite so far to picture it. I love your imagination!

Your prospect was so bad you actually caused Dorris to faint dead away when she saw it. This is a very bad sign. Oh how the other stables are going to talk about this!
After a long day you receive your results back. Your prospect was awarded a grade of 0.6

Poor big girl LOL
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