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I did do a comparison test with a couple of his siblings and he came out on top, does that mean he is better with the magical breeding ability? Obviously it doesn't mean he's got better PT! Or is it a balance/average of the two? Has anybody figured it out?

I thought the "best of the bunch" identified the best breeder.

I have never seen it confirmed in a thread post, but I also believe that the "best of pasture" means the best breeder. My top pasture foals have consistently beaten others in comparison testing. Interestingly, sometimes my best pasture foal will be a filly that is then spayed by SMA. This has happened to me twice now and I'm still not quite sure what this means about the overall quality of that group of foals or about that mare.... However if the best pasture colt doesn't live up to my standards it does make culling that pasture really simple--every single colt gets snipped!

(In some level of confirmation of that impression, I will say that I currently have 8 colts on the Era 3 top producing stallion leaderboard. Of the 8, 4 were the best foal from their pasture. Three of those four are currently 1, 2, and 3 on the board. Only one of the 8 has a PT over 10. They all have Average Foal PTs of 10.38-10.6.)

That is where the comparison testing comes in. Expensive, but worth it if they all paper the same but you can only pick one to keep,

I would keep the one identified as the best of the bunch for breeding, and probably snip the rest if I only needed to keep 1. I am not surprised at all that your best of bunch comparison tested the best so far. The email already told you he was the best one.

LOL! Rose, I AM looking for chestys! I see it like lab rats...get the base color genes I want set...Starting with StySty, then toss in an S+, and THEN add on the shineys...whites, sabino, GP, pearl, satin, etc. So my early generations are usually pretty blah colored, although I do keep one or two shineys just because! I started my pony line so I could not fuss about colors and just go wild wtih the bling!

@Salvistar....I should have known better, but wanted to use it as a learning experience! :P

One thing I did learn from a previous thread I made asking a similar question...you always have a "best of" foal for that pasture, but that doesn't necessarily mean the rest are worse than that foal. You could have multiple ones that are equivalent to each other, but the system picks one of those at random to declare the "best".

PT is how good of a show horse they are not how long they will train (that is a myth). Yes it is the best breeder of the bunch. And Dark Mist is correct.

Hmmmmm....so does that imply that consistency also applies to breeding quality, since mare advice is supposed to be about breeding rather than showing ability?