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Alrighty I'll give an explanation a shot. Now I'm not super great at keeping track of how stuff works (adhd is fun) so if I mixed something up feel free to correct me folks!

So as I understand it, basically the PT system lets you know how old the horse will be when they stop making progress. (E.g. a 9.40 foundation will only train until it is 9 years old.) After that point is reached the horse will sit at whatever level of class they have trained to. The more you train and show a horse the more points it will earn, it's just very slow to start. So it is totally possible for a horse with a higher PT score to be at a lower class then a horse with a lower score that has been trained and showed regularly!

This older mare of mine was from a side account that I merged, so she was never really trained or shown when she was younger. She is at a 4W class.

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Versus this mare, who has a lower PT score but was trained and shown more is in a higher level class (7W) and has more points.

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I hope this helps. :)

Yes, once you reach 8W you're at the highest point that you can go.
She should continue gaining until she turns 13, she has another 4 years to level up to 8W. Just keep on showing her and she will most likely reach it!

I never really spay my mares myself, but I believe that you would have to beat the leveling off in order to receive any benefits from it.

Altered horses get a training bonus. I snip pretty much everything.

@duven I’m not sure it would help at that point, you can try it

Thanks for rh replies. Sometimes I think it makes sense a certain way, but it's nice to have a community making sure I understand.

@Ammit I read that horses gain their PT score weekly under the Information for newbies thread.
I'm not trying to argue, I'm just either not undertstanding the post or maybe it needs to be corrected?
It said this:

SummertreeFarms Nov 19, 2018 6:56 AM Thanks
PT scores

Performance Inspection, aka Performance Testing (PT)
will give you a general idea about how well and how long your horse will perform in shows. Lower scores do not mean that a horse will be a bad show horse, only that they may not make it to the higher levels of showing, the elite classes like Grand Prix. They can still make you money even in their lower level classes, points are points no matter where they are earned.

PT scores are indicative of how many training points a horse will receive with each training session.

Horses will only receive those training points if they are trained. Members with free accounts need to remember to train every horse ever week.

If you pay to change a horses consistency level in the genetics lab you will need to run the PT test again, since consistency quite often (but not always) affects PT scores.

As soon as a horse is spayed or gelded they begin to earn extra training points with every training session. This gives them the potential to be better show horses, so they earn more show points, which adds to your daily show bonus

You will not see an actual change in the PT score of a spayed or gelded horse. They will, however, earn the extra points.

Remember that PT score has no effect on breeding ability. So a horse with a low PT score COULD make really nice babies.

Nothing in the game is based on PT score. PT score is a derived score based on several hidden numbers. Those hidden numbers are used for a bunch of other things in the game as well. PT score is just a general indication of showing ability for that horse. It's for your reference only. Nothing in the game except for the PT leaderboards use PT for anything.