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They just don't want you using an upgraded account to paper horses for someone who does not have an upgraded account. That's cheating. If you bought them and are using them for breeding your good.

And Hidden, if you buy a stud and paper him and don't like what he papers out as, you can still sell him. It's if you are clearly cheating that you have issues. But don't think you're stuck with a subpar stallion!

So, all foundation stallions paper at C or Showable Only. You can compare foundations to each other to find out who is better, but pretty much you know that Perfect Foundations and Rank Specials are the best foundations around, as well as top notch producers as far as breeding ability. I haunted the Foundation Rescue for stallions, especially for the ones I had LE genes put on.

When you start breeding your lined foals or buying lined colts, you will need to decide for yourself what you want your different generations to paper at. It seems a bunch of us require our gen 2 colts to paper B but that is really up to you. A colt that papers a letter grade above his sire is obviously superior to his sire--will produce better foals, which is the whole point. If they paper the same letter, then you have to compare the colt to the sire or to a benchmark stallion you have in the colt's generation to decide whether to keep the colt intact or not. Comparison testing gets expensive fast!

Remember that stallions are papered strictly on their own merit, while mares are papered based on the quality of their foals. As a result, the quality of the stallion you are breeding the mares to greatly influences their paper level.

Stallions paper as: Showable Only, C, B, A, Star.

Mares paper as: Fail, Yellow, Red, Blue, Gold.

In general foundation mares paper yellow but most of mine are papering out red because most of my foundation stallions are perfect foundations.