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Or do I need to find a better stallion?

JME Bush Fire

Your stallion is definitely lower quality than your mare. She is an exceptional producer so she is Red papered and her breeding quality is known. Your stallion's quality is not known, but he would at best be C papered. I would use an exceptional producer or and exceptionally perfect stallion with that particular mare.

While you can have foals pass from C x Red crossed the foals produced will always be lower quality than the best a B x Red cross will produce. Now if you are less concerned with quality and focusing more on color then I would not test the foals you want to keep for breeding.

" If the difference in the quality of your mare and stallion is too great then foals are less likely to pass or may never pass."

This is only true for strict breeding advice. Quality differences do not have any impact on regular breeding advice.


Hand breeding (live cover) gives you the worst odds for intact foals. A lot of foals get altered and become show horses. Using your pasture bonus will increase your chance of intact foals by a lot.

Breeding Advice: Test if this is a nice foal for this cross.
Strict Breeding Advice: Test how this foal compares to both its parents.

Been this way for I think about 2 real life years now? Maybe closer to 3.