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Beautiful color.

Just means she isn't significantly worse than her parents, the inconsistency probably isn't much

As the others have said, it just means she isn't that much worse than her parents. Since her parents are C/Yellow, she is probably right around the same as them. The game won't spay her for being as good as her parents. The better horses you have had spayed/gelded were worse than their parents.

both the foals parents are RS and I've bred that pair before and got B papered foals so they are not bad breeders

Probably just that she's about as good as her mother, who's also Yellow papered. Since breeding advice only typically spays fillies who are marked worse than their parents, it's likely she's just about as good as her parents.

Remember there is always a variance wirh breeding ability - I have gotten a Blue filly out of a particular pair, then bred them again the following season and got a C colt (inevitably gelded). There is always that +/- 'swing' that only Ammit knows the numbers that they lie between, so what may be a good match one season, might not work the following season. If they are uneven generations/abilities, then don't expect an intact foal, but if matched well, then you have a chance (significantly higher than a badly matched pair, but not guaranteed) of an intact foal.

It can't be said too many times that this game is modeled on real life, with all the variability that entails. Everything is subject to variation; there are very, very few fixed results guaranteed in breeding or in showing. Even in the color genetics, although there are only two possible alleles for each gene (with the exception of Cream, Agouti, and the many Kit mutations), Ammit's dynamic image generator uses complex math to help increase the variations of expression for the genes.

This is part of what makes the game fun, for me. There is no way to predict exactly what will happen when you enter a show--the competition is made up of random entries from all the horses eligible for a show at a certain level, and with the possibility of someone entering an Inconsistent horse whose score just happens to swing high, even a consistent horse with a projected score at the top of a class may end up placing lower than expected.

Real life breeders can only breed horses together that seem to have the potential to produce foals that will do well. There are no guarantees there, either. In the game, as in real life, unsuccessful breeding results are usually more common than successful ones.

If you can only wrap your mind around this life-like variability in performance for showing and breeding, then the dynamics of the game will begin to make sense, even though you will never be able to predict exactly what you are going to get in any given show or from any given mare/stallion cross.

Does this lead to a lot of disappointment? Of course it does, and having beautiful foals neutered by the game can be extremely painful. On the other hand, this variability makes the moments of outstanding success all the more exciting and precious. At least that's how it has always seemed to me.