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Welcome @MiddayMight! This page has a lot of good info about the game https://hj2.huntandjump.com/faq.php

Performance Test Grade is an indication of how well your horse will do in shows and at what point they will level off and not gain as many point via training as they did before leveling off. The highest a PT score can get is 15.3. Please note PT score is not a direct reflection of breeding quality

What does Consistent / Inconsistent mean?
This is a measure of how consistently a horse will perform when shown. A perfectly consistent horse will have exactly the same score both times it is shown in a week. This is a solid, reliable, predictable show horse.
Inconsistent horses will have days where they perform flawlessly and outshine the competition, but on other days their heart won’t be in it, and they will place much lower in the class.
Consistency is mostly applicable to showing results. The only relationship to breeding ability is that inconsistent horses are more likely to have inconsistent foals.


Breeding Inspection – aka Papering
Stallion Papers
Showable Only: This means just that, should only ever be used for showing. Consider it a definite fail as far as breeding stock is concerned.
C: This represents basic/foundation level breeding ability. Perfect quality foundation stallions are C-papered.
B: Exceptional foundations and many 2nd generation stallions are B-papered.
A: Only exceptional foundations that have been given 5% breeding boosts can expect to see A papers. Otherwise, these are sometimes bred in the 2nd generation, and often in the 3rd.
*Star: This is the highest a stallion can paper. You normally will find this, albeit rarely, in boosted 3rd generation lines - most often in 4th and beyond.
4a This inspection will provide you with an idea of how good a breeder your horse will be. Whereas Breeding Advice and Strict Breeding Advice will tell you if a horse SHOULD be bred, Breeding Inspection will identify the level of that breeding ability. Stallions and mares have different papering ranks/levels.
Mare Papers
Failed: The mare equivalent of a stallion's "Showable Only" result. This mare has no place breeding
Yellow: This represents basic/foundation level breeding ability
Red: Exceptional foundations and many 2nd generation mares are Red-papered
Blue: Only exceptional foundations that have been given 5% breeding boosts can expect to see Blue papers. Otherwise, these are sometimes bred in the 2nd generation, and often in the 3rd.
*Gold: This is the highest a mare can paper. You normally will find this, albeit rarely, in boosted 3rd generation lines - most often in 4th and beyond.


Why aren't my foals doing well in shows?
In foal/yearling classes (horses less than a season old) showing is literally a coin flip. They can’t train yet and there are only two horses in level 1L classes, so winning is totally luck based and has nothing to do with Ability.

I am assuming yearlings do not train so that someone who breeds at the end of the month isn't going to be way behind someone who bred in the beginning and would have gotten a few more weeks worth of training points. Since there are leaderboards for points earned even one more training session could make a big difference.

Just wanted to add that there is *Star and *Gold, **Star and **Gold, and ***Star and ***Gold.

***Star and ***Gold is only possible through boosting.