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I'm going to try but to be honest It's a little confusing for me so hopefully I can make this simple. First AFPT has nothing to do with paper level. PT is strictly showing and paper level is strictly breeding. I'm not sure at what level that becomes available but I know the free accounts you can not paper and I know the premium account can and I'm unsure about the basic. Another test that can be done at premium, not sure about basic, is comparison testing. This test allows you to compare stallions to each other. This is where people are getting their "high A", "low B", or "mid C" from. A good example is I have a 2nd generation A stallion. I know he's a low A papered because I have a few B papered boys who compare "as good as" him. I know that any boy who doesn't compare AGA must be low to mid B papered.

Hopefully I made some since lol.

Since every horse's breeding ability percentage has the potential of passing on a fairly wide range of breeding and showing abilities to its foals, making judgements based on the Average Foal PT of a small number of foals would tend to coming to faulty conclusions about the stallion's or mare's relative ability.

For stallions, I have found that Comparison Testing is the best way to compare the abilities of stallions with the same paper level.

Here's a little story about how the rankings High B, Low A, Medium B or A and so forth come about. The same thing happens for the *Star stallions, with a lot more divisions.

In the course of breeding the same C papered foundation stallion to numerous mares, I have often observed the following pattern in his B papered sons.

1. I get a B papered son that tests about as good as his C papered sire. This colt I will generally snip, unless he carries a gene I really want, in which case I will keep him intact until a better B papered brother comes along. Let's call him B-1, a very low B.

2. I get a B papered son that tests superior to his C papered sire. He will remain intact, and I will now compare his brothers to him, rather than to their sire. This colt is B-2, a medium B.

3. While comparing other B papered sons to B-2, I may happen on one that tests superior to this benchmark among the brothers. At this point, I geld the previous colts that I had left intact, because I now have a B papered colt that is superior to all of the previously tested ones. The new benchmark is B-3, a high medium B.

4. Sometimes, I will, perhaps in later years, happen on a B papered colt that is superior to B-3. Once again, I snip B-3 and all the brothers that were about as good as him, keeping B-4 as my benchmark for the 2nd gen stallions of this line. B-4 is a high B, approaching A papering range, most likely.

Ammit, do you mean PT for the first sentence?

As in "First PT has nothing to do with paper level. PT is strictly showing and paper level is strictly breeding."

Otherwise, "First AFPT has nothing to do with paper level" and "AFPT is exactly a concrete expression of what paper level is telling you" are contradicting each other.