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There is just about no correlation between PT and breeding ability. In fact, I'm sure we all had that failed paper foal with 13PT.... Well the reverse happens too. They are completely separate rolls. Even if they are rolls "from the same dice" so to speak. Occasionally people search for a "13PT bootstrap sire", the theory being if they have good enough dice to get a 13PT they should be good enough to get a high star. But I personally would not look for a BS sire that way. Because the parents could throw WAY at the top of their range for the PT, and then WAY down on the breeding ability and the colt could test worse than sire! This is why I normally don't ever even PT test by breeding stock. I want good breeders, but don't need them to be good show ponies. Finally, in some cases where people have two colts, sometimes they geld the higher PT colt with the intention being he can be an even higher quality show horse. And even then I don't think PT has as much affect on lifetime points as you would think it would, so I normally use it to gage quality of the parents even if it doesn't affect me keeping the foal itself.

There is specificity a correlation in lined horses. In foundations it is random.