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Firstly, you have to have at least a basic upgrade to be able to paper horses.

Papering is more a measure of a horse's breeding quality. It is not related to showing ability in anyway. Paper levels indicate the breeding quality of a horse - the higher the paper level, the better quality the horse is as a breeder.

There are four paper levels:
C/Yellow
B/Red
A/Blue
Star/Gold

The letters refer to stallion papering and the colours refer to mare papering. I.e. a B papered stallion is the equivalent of a Red papered mare. You generally want to breed horses of similar paper level together in order to produce better foals. Breeding a Star papered stallion to a Yellow papered mare is very uneven in quality and would most likely result in the foal being spayed/gelded.

Most players use paper levels to determine how the quality of their lines are improving over generations, and which foals are worth keeping each season.

Hope that helps. I know I was pretty confused by it all when I first started.