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Ok. Gotcha. But I guess who not paper her like you do geldings? Or doesn't the papering do much? Does it pay to paper a gelding? Even though it's free.

I paper some of my geldings mostly to keep an eye on my broodmare quality. If I have a mare throwing Showable only geldings, I count that as 2 strikes in my 3 strike policy! Speaking of which, time to do some serious broodmare culling...

Ammit added Gelding Papering just to satisfy curiosity. The longer pedigrees grow, the harder it is to get colts that are superior to their sires enough to get past both Lucas and Charlie. Players who were breeding *Star stallions placing in the top 250 on the old leaderboard, began to wonder how those colts might have papered if they hadn't been snipped, since colts can be papered at birth, while mares have to have foals on the ground. I think this was before the comparison test was added, but I could be wrong.

Stallion (and gelding) papering is based on the concrete breeding ability assigned to a colt at birth or creation. Mare's papering is based on their foals' quality as shown in part by their PT scores and in part by other factors Ammit has never revealed. If a mare is spayed by Lucas in the SAT or by Mare Advice or Smart Mare Advice, she is not going to have any foals for her potential papering level to be determined by. So, spayed mare papering is an impossibility in this game. If you come across a spayed mare with a paper level, it's because she was spayed after being papered because her paper level or Average Foal PT was worse than her dam's or only a small bit better.