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The gen 3 mare threw a 10.8 to my Doux this season...so I wouldn't cull her yet (and I would offer to buy her and the gen 4 mare). No, they aren't great PTs, but I would try to put the young mare to at least one superior gen 4 sire before you cull her...would have been interesting to see this year's filly's PT but she's been yummed.

As far as the colt goes, to me that comes down to how valuable his genes are compared to the rest of your gen 4s. If you have a lot of Pearl, I would sell him or retire him to the show barn. If he's your only Pearl stud right now, I would give him a chance. Again, I would try putting him over the best gen 4 mares you can get your hands on--girls out of Blue mares or who are Blue themselves if you can get someone to put a few up for you. If he's got a high alter rate or his foal PT is not up to snuff after that, snip that boy and show the socks off of him!

I'm having to make some similar decisions so I feel your pain!

Given that 3G Extra Dark's pedigree includes a B papered grandsire and a rank special granddam, I think those are some pretty dismal 4th gen PTs. I would cull her, for sure. I think she got the short end of the genetic stick.

I never cull based on the mare's own PT, and I don't necessarily always cull the foals of a mare I cull (though that counts pretty heavily against them when I'm looking at who gets culled), but that's your call. You might give the fillies another season or two, to see what kind of PTs they produce and whether their foals stay intact, but I wouldn't blame you at all if you snipped them too.

I usually cull anything less than 9.6 in my foundations. This is because I have almost all 9.9 PT stallions and I kid you not, every low PT, like 9.0, 5.0, even 3.5, gave me inconsistent and altered babies-- which I also had to cull. I didn't get one in tact, for two breeding seasons out of those mares. I try to keep the PT closer to the stallion's.