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I register all of my horses. I don't know why. Only few horses have chances for earning awards, but if I don't test my horses' genotypes, registration just helps to discover and remember what genes they have.

As Cheers said, it's free, so...why not? ;)

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What? Really? Most of the genes can be just seen when a horse is created/born, and registering a horse won't show if is your horse homozygous or heterozygous for any gene #-o

So horses which never will achieve anything at the LBs shouldn't be registered in the Breeders Clubs because it shows what genes they have?

Most genes are identifiable by phenotype, but some are not obvious, especially patterns that are currently affected by white factor, where a horse may carry the spotting gene but there is no visible pattern, or only a minimal one. Also, frame hides unless there is a white pattern for it to affect. Sooty+ can be hard to see on some colors. And White 1 horse with lots of White Factor will most likely not have enough color present to identify what the base color is.

So, the preferred way to find out if a horse has any of these not obvious genetics is to do a color test, not check to see which Breeders Clubs it is eligible for.

Any horse can be entered into the Breeders Clubs it is eligible for because you can't predict which ones will end up on the points leaderboards, since luck plays such a role there. Entering them just to find out a tricky color or pattern, however, is not acceptable game play.

One of my many gameplay goals is to get all of my breeding stock color tested....