I decided to add some NAB blood to my line. Mostly because they possess good movement right from the AC. I saw my project moving nowhere near to the needed dressage qualities, mostly because of quite bad starting horses. They do show neutral movement BR, but evolved balance and agility before movement. It gave me a hint of idea to make COI low, add some nice rare colors AND movement genes to my Trakens without ruining all evaluation.
Note: most of the NAB stallion available for stud qualify very well as Trakens, 4/5.
And I begun.
There's a little story about how I organize my stallions catalogue. I switched to Opera because Firefox lagged so bad I couldn't stand it anymore. Not only HWO, but Youtube, Coursera, some social media, you name it. And while I was preparing for massive breedings, I searched studs high and low. I looked through several dozens of pages with hundreds of stallions. I started with Mongolians, then Trakehners, and finished it all with Turkmenes and NABs.
Right now my folder of bookmarks on Trakehner project looks like that:
NABs folder
Turkmenes - I don't have much time for choosing Turkmene studs, but because it's really vast amount of stallions, it doesn't matter that much.
I might start to add some interesting horses later, but now I'm content.
I encountered some uncomfortable things while searching.
First, the list of breeds is TOO small. I mean not the number of breeds, but actual size of the window. For example, I need to find Arab x TB crosses. I need to choose Arabian first, then scroll down and find TB somewhere near the bottom of the list in the narrow rapidly scrolling window and click it with CTRL. I'm also upset by having no chance to save your actual search question (?). I'm using it constantly, every game year so far, and I'm angry at the need to enter this stuff over and over again. In the case of NABs I just bookmarked all the stallions I needed...
I culled excess fillies who were not pure Trakens, and I'm raisind NAB x Trak crosses. As usually, no colts needed here. COI dropped immediately and will not rise very rapidly while I'm returning the pure breed.
Some of the girls.