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So after delaying and delaying I finally got around to doing comparison testing on my 2nd gen yearlings, 2 year olds, and handful of 3 year olds that I've been neglecting. After about 3 days and what felt like 100 but was really closer to 50 tests, I felt like I was at wits end. Majority of them tested About As Good As my current benchmark, which wasn't helping me figure out who to keep and who to geld. And then it happened! I finally got a superior 2nd gen B papered colt!

Here he is in all his shining glory! Only thing he's missing is the DP, but I may just add that in later :x

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So after I did my jumps of joy, I realized I haven't the foggiest clue as to where to go from here! I just spent all this time and money testing over half my stock to my previous benchmark. Do I retest them all to my new guy? I decided to start with just testing all the colts (even those I'd done previously) from the same sire to see what happens. 4 horses later I run out of money, oops. But of those 4, they were all worse.

So I guess now I'm wondering what to do. I'm going to continue to try and work my way back through everyone and see what happens, but what if they are all worse? This guy is still a foal so do I continue to use a subpar stallion till an AGA comes along? I'm beyond happy to now have a better bench to narrow my intact ratio down, but also sad that I have to go back through everyone.

I also found a new 3g benchmark too! But that one was easier to handle since I only have a handful of them.

Anyone else been having benchmark joys and woes? I do love that this game is constantly keeping me on my toes :-))