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The two from the Great Show Horses herd helper will definitely have a PT test of 9.9, meaning they will be good at showing. They appear to have passed Gelding Advice and SAT (?), so they will be okay as breeders, but there's no guarantee that they will be as good as a perfect foundation for breeding. It wouldn't hurt to geld them since they've given you intact sons to start your breeding string for the second generation. They are young enough to get lots of the benefit neutering gives horses in training.

The Bring Back the Sun stallion is an Exceptionally Perfect horse. That means he has a PT score of 10.4, as good at showing as a pretty good 2nd generation horse, and would paper B (ordinary create stallions always paper C if they pass Gelding Advice) so he will be as good at breeding as a good 2nd gen. Do show your breeding stock as well as the neuters. They can also do very well in the show ring, and this one definitely should. He will also be perfectly consistent, meaning his show score will be exactly the same each time you show him.

At least, that's what I would probably do at your stage of the game. How you run your stable is completely up to you.

Not all of the Rank Special horses are exceptional producers or Exceptionally Perfect. Some are just Perfect Foundations. If they are exceptional in any way, it will be noted in the description of the Rank Special.

You're right. Yesterday's Rank Special made Perfect Foundations.

I apologize if you were upset about my explanations including things you already knew. I tend toward thorough explanations most of the time, and so probably end up giving too much information.

Because the BBTS stallion is an exceptionally perfect, breeding him to your regular foundation mares will probably result in a lot of altered horses. His stats are basically that of a gen 2. If your goal right now is to make lots of nice show ponies this would be a good way to get some. However, if you're trying to get some intact gen 2 breeding stock you might want to try something different. We'll be getting 10 more rank specials over the next ten days, so you might consider if one of those is a perfect foundation making it a stallion to use with your regular foundation mares. If the rank special is a exceptionally perfect or exceptional producer you might want to make it a mare to use with your BBTS stud. There's no wrong way to go about it, it just depends on your breeding goals.

Also, if you have a rank special herd helper that you're not sure you'll keep, try making a mare. They almost always sell for more.

Mares don't usually sell for more, but they are more likely to sell....most experienced players know when they are going to need a special stallion so we usually don't end up needing to buy them. But Rank Special mares are almost always in demand, especially right around a creation event. As we get a few weeks out from the event, it may get harder to sell even rank Specials, especially if they don't have any "special" genes or patterns, and they may go from commanding 25 or 30k each to only 5 or 10. I would also note that they are almost always more valuable when they are 4 years old or younger and have no living offspring, because at that point they can still be GMTd if the new owner desires (Genetic Modification Treatment--you can change up their color and pattern a bit in the lab!).

But yeah, a lot of us have been saving our hbs for weeks or even months for this couple of weeks because it's just a smorgasbord of rank specials and present buying and receiving and topping up our pastures with tons of high quality new mares.

By the way, a good work around for your BBTS stallion is to use him in the pasture with foundation mares that have the full pasture bonus. If no one has explained that to you yet, ask and we can give you the important points, but basically it means the mares will produce foals only from the top end of their breeding ability range (it doesn't affect the stallion at all). You may not get quite as many intact foals as you would if you used a stallion that had he same breeding quality as your mares, but you would get more than if you just hand breed and what you get will be pretty top notch!

The full bonus is 30 days but my understanding is they get some bonus for any time they spend in the pasture, so you would get a partial bonus when you breed them in January.