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Paper levels are a rather broad indicator of breeding ability. Horses with higher breeding ability will produce foals with, more or less, better breeding and showing ability, but there's a lot of variability involved, so it's not guaranteed.

Breeding stallions to mares of the same breeding ability level (C-Yellow, B-Red, etc.) tends to produce more intact foals, but the range of breeding ability for each letter/color is quite broad, so not all horses with the same paper level will be equal.

A quick question: If you have a star stud, is it possible to have a colt who test superior to sire? in other words, is the star category fixed or is there a high and low? Trying to decide whether to keep colts who tests asa as their star sire. Thanks!

There is a wide range covered by the *Star papering. It's been quite a few real-life years, but back when I was first playing in 2011-2013, We had a leaderboard that displayed the top 500 stallions in the game. All of them were *Star papered. The ones at the bottom of the list were producing offspring in the 11.0-11.5 range, with mostly *Gold and *Star offspring. The ones at the top of the list were producing foals in the 12.0+ range, all of them *Star and *Gold papered. I can remember the excitement when the first 12+ foals began to appear, and again when we reached 13 PTs.

These days, with the breeders clubs for eras and many different colors and patterns, the leaderboards are completely different from those slightly earlier days of the game.

Keeping colts who test about as good as their *Star sires is probably not a great idea, if your goal is to chase higher and higher PT scores, but since we have "mare lag" as the papering gets higher, since there is one more test for weeding out colts (Comparison testing), the quality of the *Gold mares will be harder to determine until they have enough foals to get an Average Foal PT score that will be a good marker of which ones are better. Less than 10 foals is a small sample, I would say.

@kintara Interesting! And no, it would be through boosting the clone. (I believe that's still allowed?) That's how Ammit showed different percentages for a breeding project she did with horses in pasture. I've also seen it done on HJ1 before: someone was selling off an A papered foundie that was a clone.