When adopting new horses...

[ShadowDragon]

Quick question.. When you adopt new horses, what's most important, the report or their HGP numbers? I've found a couple of horses that didn't have the best reports, but had pretty good HGP. I'm a little confused by it. Thanks for any advice or help on this!

[BlackOak2]

Quick question.. When you adopt new horses, what's most important, the report or their HGP numbers? I've found a couple of horses that didn't have the best reports, but had pretty good HGP. I'm a little confused by it. Thanks for any advice or help on this!

The HGP or Horse Genetic Potential is a hard score that offers the total accumulation of each stat in both genes and also conformation. All it is, is a separate option to look at the gene stat and conformation stat accumulation.

Generally speaking, the higher the HGP, the better the BR and the conf score will be, or should be. There is a lot more to a strong competition horse then simple HGP, BR or conf score.
But, the HGP will offer a solid number that we can use to help describe the genes and the conf score the particular horse has.

It is up to us on what we decide is good, what to look for, what strengths are important, what weaknesses are allowable and what we can work with.

Horses that look good 'on paper' have in the past proven to be really good and also proven to be really bad, so it's up to us to decide on each individual horse.

that doesn't really answer your question, but I hope that gives you further insight.

[ShadowDragon]

Thanks, BlackOak, that helps!