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If you post your foals we can help you out. Did you pay attention to the eras when you were breeding?

Foals must be the same era as the sire, so mares must be the same era or higher than the stud you breed them to.

It sounds like you may not understand how the futurity works?

All foals under the age of 6 should be able to be futurity locked (I'm pretty sure, I might be wrong pn this part because I don't futurity lock foals).

In order for foals to win futurity awards for the stallion, they usually need to be 5 years old. So for example, if you breed to a stallion in order for him to show on the ERA 15 futurity, 10 of his 5 year old foals need to have really high total show points. Thats how the stallion qualifies for the futurity.

For a stallion to qualify for futurity the stallion must have 10 foals bred by someone other than the owner of the stallion (and anyone that has ever owned the stallion). Those foals need to be 5 years old (they can be younger but 5 year olds should have more points, than a 2 year old so I would say 5 year olds), the futurity score is the total combined score of the top ten highest pointed offspring of that stallion.

This is why it is crucial that futurity foals are entered in shows twice a week every single week to earn the maximum amount of points. You could do everything correctly, and someone else's foals may have more points.

I don't think your yearlings are old enough to be on the futurity board, based on the brief look at did at your horses.

Plus what HighstormFarm and Ammit said about the eras needing to be the same. Your Futurity foals in your primary barn are all mixed eras. Stallion is 15, foals are 12, 13 and 15.


Below is how foals are awarded for futurities (I bolded it). The stallion you picked (who is super cute by the way) is ranked 25th on the ERA 15 board. He'd need to be ranked at least 5th, for his foals to be awarded. I wouldn't be discouraged. Some of your ERA 15 foals from him might do well for you by December 28th when their 5 year old season is over.

End of the year prizes
Stallion Futurities will award the following prizes on the 28th of this month. There must be a full list of 25 eligible stallions for prizes to be awarded.
Champion: 8 GMTs to the stallion owner, and 1 GMT to the owner of each of his 10 best foals.
Reserve Champion: 6 GMTs, and 1 GMT to the owner of each of his 10 best foals.
Third Place: 4 GMTs, and 1 GMT to the owner of each of his 8 best foals.
Fourth Place: 1 GMTs, and 1 GMT to the owner of each of his 6 best foals.
Fifth Place: 1 GMT, and 1 GMT to the owner of each of his 4 best foals.
Ribbons to 10th place.

I think most of us would recommend breeding 5-10 foals per stallion that you would want to be futurity winning foals each season. Just make sure your showing foals twice a week every week. Thats super crucial.

Picking the higher quality stallions or popular stallions will also help. It will take a few months to be able to see a difference for awards.