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This is what is says: "VS Star Struck is worse than Star of Onyx 2". VS Star Struck is the sire. This tells me that the foal is not so good, but dad is worse. ... the other foal tested says AGA.

I agree with Seldom. You should always put the babies first to get an accurate comparison as to their quality.

That makes sense. Wish it would hint on that on the comparison page. That's how I will do it for now on. I'm a word person. ..how words are used in a sentence....and that sentence had me going, lol. But it did leave the door wide open on the quality of the foal, but I'm a freak about literalism, drives my son nuts, lol
Thank you!

Very true, Ammit.

However, I have found that putting the sire on the right side of the test and the son on the left, habitually, makes it easier to know at a glance which generation horse is better. I also use the same placement when comparing colts of the same generation. Once I get a colt that's superior to his sire, he gets moved to the right side, and any brothers tested against him are put on the left.

I could put the horse others are compared to on the left just as easily, but I've found that consistency of location makes it easier to keep track of the results.

I copy and paste the results in the notes section of each foal. I also geld anyone who is not Superior. That way if I go looking through my show horses I know why that particular horse was altered.

@Robin--

I ALWAYS mark down Superior/AGA if I'm keeping a stallion intact. If they are getting snipped, they just get snipped.

If I'm comparing a batch of foals at once, I tend to write down a list of them on a piece of paper and then just mark Inf/AGA/Sup next to the colt's name so that I'm not switching between lots of pages. Then once I'm done with that batch I go through and geld/make notes as is appropriate.

I tend to breed all of my generations continuously, but if I have a stallion that is consistently not producing well, or if I can source a better stallion for a line, I will snip the old one and add a new one. Other than that, I will snip colts as I get better ones for their lines. So, for instance, right now I have A papered gen 2 colts from my KP line but not from my Macchiato line (both have B sires). I'm holding onto a few colts from my Macchiato line but my hope is that I will get some As next season, in which case my Bs will all get snipped.

Plus, if I have a stallion throwing really really good colts (for instance, a perfect Foundation stallion throwing B colts that are AGA A gen 2 colts) then I have reason to believe that the best of his fillies are similarly "super superior". You always need more extra awesome fillies in your herd. Your mare quality will always lag behind your colt quality because you can't compare mares until you can compare AFPT.

If you're having difficulty with focus, I would highly recommend that you do three things:

1) focus on building your show herd above all else right now. Pour your game cash into IVs for new barns and fill those barns with high PT show ponies. Doing this now will set you up with a show bonus that can fund all of your breeding and testing in the future.

2) find a pattern or color or combination thereof that you really love. Focus on breeding for this sort of horse. If you love silver black rabicano, go through your herd and throw everything that cannot get you towards that goal into a show pony breeding program, not a progressive generational program.

3) everyone has to come up with a way to keep track of what they are breeding and how they are doing. Some people keep notebooks, some keep spreadsheets, some make notes on mare pages...but pretty much all of us write stuff down in some form. Find a system that works for you and stick to it.

Good suggestions/ideas! Thank you! Gotta set some goals up. Just sold a lot of my horses as I was feeling a little scattered. Will hoard the hb and save for another barn or two and then start filling up with show ponies.