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I personally don't keep anything natural. They're too difficult to get jumps for and end up not meeting their full potential for improvement. So what I do is I look at my foals on the day they're born and I'll retire anything that doesn't have at least 10 active DNA. Then I'll x-ray them and the first thing I look for is if they're "very good" or "excellent". I retire the vast majority of very goods unless they have phenomenal lines. I'd say 99% of them are retired though.
At that point, I'll calculate their scores according to BMC's guide. Anything fully itemed (minus the charm) with a 450 score and above is my goal. Anything that would score at least a 459 with a charm will get one and I'll keep an eye on them for supering down the road.
It's easiest to calculate scores before they gain any loyalty, training, etc. So I do it on foaling day for that reason. I put their scores in the description so I don't forget and calculate it again down the road when it's more difficult. I don't jump them until they turn 11 and age into Prime Time.
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Prime jumping age seems to be 13 - 20 y/o then I start breeding at 21
There score goes down at 19-20 but that's when I had one jump 98" *shrugs*
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Hm...interesting.
My paints were on track to jump and improve, hit their best either early or what I called average (5-16). Any late bloomers were retired. Curious to see how their scores will be when I start them.
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Breeding two excellent horses make it more likely to get an excellent foal but in my opionion I think it should happen more than it does. Just because if you breed an excellent and a very good you'll get very good like almost every time so why isn't the excellent gene just as strong you know?
Like my rares I literally retire every very good ever produced so shouldn't eventually like they only be excellent most of the time in theory? It's part of the game that frustrates me lol
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Valoroso, that thread helped. My old paint lines were solid performers and I think it just helped me a lot!
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Ok, so this "very good" is confusing me. What would be the difference if it had an excellent instead? If breeding 2 "excellent" will you always get excellent?
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I wouldn't personally because she's 'very good'. I send all my 'very good' horses to my jumpoff barn to jump my excellent horses and I still have the option of doing something with them later on if I decide too. :)
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Miss Lady
So with this horse, is it worth it to item in your opinion? Already registered and on carrot juice.
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I breed a batch, retire what I'm not impressed with, then xray the rest, only keep the Excellent foals. Then I register, assign feed, co-trainers, and wait until they level to 11 to item. If they have a 451+ score then I may charm but I've stopped charming as much because they're so hard to get lol. If they don't get to level 11 they get retired.
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