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Out of only 10 horses I wouldn't say that's abnormal, just unlucky. I usually breed over 100 gen 3's with the same stats a season and end up with about 25 keepers (and I do manually snip some.)

You are not being careful about inconsistency in your breeding stock. I bet the foal got so inconsistent it was gelded.

I'm glad to have it confirmed that my very strict cutoff that all my breeding stock must be consistent is a good thing. Occasionally I wondered if it was unnecessary. Now I won't worry about it!

I am not sure exactly how the pasture qualifies a foal as the "best". My guess is that it is based strictly on breeding score. Or a combination of breeding score and PT score, maybe?

However, the breeding advice button will geld/spay horses based on multiple tests. Comparing the breeding score to the parents, looking at consistency, etc.

So I think what happened here is that the best in pasture foal did have the best "score" but was gelded because of the consistency parameter. The other foals that are "worse" than the best in pasture, probably had better consistency and a decent enough breeding score to pass all of the breeding advice tests.

I would think theoretically you could have other situations where your best in pasture might be gelded.
Say for example you have 2 stallions in the pasture, an A paper and a C paper. Your best in pasture is a B papered colt sired by the A papered stallion. That colt would still be gelded by breeding advice, because his sire is better. Another colt in the pasture might also be B papered, worse than your best in pasture, but if he was sired by the C papered stallion he might pass breeding advice.

Interesting

It definitely tripped me up that others passed SBA, when BiP failed.

I appreciate that!

I think there is some "hidden" information not expressly included in the FAQ. Ammit pretty clearly stated above that the best in pasture horse in question was gelded because of consistency.

So that tells me that consistency is part of the BA/SBA testing.