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Some times it just happens. It's part of the chance in the game. Just because everything lines up doesn't mean they wont get snipped it just means you have a less chance in the foal getting snipped. Also if you hand bred this foal I would not use SBA I would only have used BA. He's really pretty though and should make a good show pony :)

Paper him, it's free if they're snipped. He might be slightly worse than his parents :)

I would say it is. I breed even generation and try and breed even paper level too. I normally end up with way to many intact foals and heavily test and cull for all kinds of things to get my intact numbers down. That said there is always a chance that even if all those things are correct it doesn't mean the foal will always be intact. Your still going to have a chance. Remember the horses have a high end and a low end that the foal can inherit from. If the foal gets unlucky and inherits from the low end of both parents it's not going to pass SBA and get snipped. Some years I have pastures where almost all the pasture passes and the following year I might end up with only 3 out of 30 foals that pass.

Oh wow, he's quite a lot worse. It was probably just a bad roll of the dice, hopefully they'll have better foals in the future. But he might be a pretty good little show pony so I'd hold onto him :)

Sometimes just bad luck!! He had good parents but obviously with a C paper the foal was much worse than parents. Sometimes foals are better, around the same, or much worse than the parents! That's the roll of the dice when breeding!