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Breeding Advice is free and available to anyone.

Strict Breeding Advice is free but only accessible with an upgrade. If I make a foal with genes I REALLY want, but I'm on the fence about what their quality might be, I might only run that horse through regular Breeding Advice. If they pass BA, they're good breeders. If they pass SBA, they're REALLY good breeders.

SBA was created for crazy-massive stables *looks away innocently* who have horse hoarding issues and have too many intact horses to choose from. It is not required or necessary to use SBA to improve the quality of your herd over time, but it helps you pick out the very best of the best. It is generally recommended by most players to use BA as it's free, especially if you want to sell to other players, but you can also turn it off. You never HAVE to use BA or SBA. Do what works for you. However, when selling an intact horse, you'll be hard pressed to find buyers if you didn't run free BA.

Papering is 1000 and only available to upgrades. If you're tight on funds, wait on papering.

Performance Testing is 500 and available to anyone. A horse with a higher PT score will be trainable longer before "leveling off" and thus is more likely to make higher earnings later in life.

I only run PT on my show horses when I have spare funds, and I don't worry about it as much with my breeding horses. Your horse shows at the same quality whether or not you revealed their PT. It doesn't change unless you use a GMT to improve it.

(Same concept with papering: it won't change unless you GMT, so it's the same whether you reveal it or not, you just can't see it until you pay for it. You USED to be able to "pad" and improve a mare's papering level with good foals, but that is no longer the case.)

I cannot stress this final point enough: PT score and Breeding Ability ARE NOT RELATED. A horse might be awesome at showing but a mediocre breeder, or vice versa. A few horses are great (or terrible) at both skills.

Does this answer all your questions? I had a lot of antihistamines tonight for my bad allergies, so my brain is fuzzy.

PT score and Breeding Ability ARE NOT RELATED. A horse might be awesome at showing but a mediocre breeder, or vice versa. A few horses are great (or terrible) at both skills.

This is only true for foundations.

PT score and quality are related in as much that a better quality breeding horse will have foals with higher PT's. So although the actual PT on a horse can't tell you what the breeding quality is, it is still an indication of a better (or worse) quality breeding line.

So yes you definitely would want to see higher PT's in higher generations, if PT isn't increasing, then quality isn't