Mediocre foals. Thou art mine, and I liketh it not.

My first few years in PF, I just dabbled in breeding.  I usually produced just one or perhaps two foals a year.

Since I ratcheted up production to four per year, and then upwards further to ten per year, I have had the distinction of producing middle-of-the-road racers.  Their not worthless, but their certainly not overly successful either.

How about Shatterstar?  Nightwing x Shattered Record is a nice match of two successful racers.  I get a nice AR and have high hopes.  He is now a 4yo with a record of 18-5-4-0 and just over $500,000 in earnings.  Acceptable, but not anything to crow about.

Sabretooth?  I had lower expectations because the breeding pair of Predator x Monsoon was not as compelling.  He has actually surpassed Shatterstar somewhat on the scale of mediocrity though.  A record of 18-3-4-3 with career earnings of $800,800 is actually not half bad.  He represents the best that I've been able to produce since my very first foal, Nova.

Domino (War Machine x Sharp Cat) 19-3-4-4, $172,575 and Tombstone (Vampirical x Shadowcat) 18-1-3-2, $172,300 round out my very average 4yo crop.

You see what's going on here?  None of them are completely hopeless.  You know, no 13-0-0-0 record or anything like that.  And yet, none of them are really good either. 

My next crop, who are currently 3yo's,  follow the same pattern.  Huntress (Big Easy x Shadowcat)  started off with a bang, winning her first race.  Since then, she has regressed a bit and sports a record of 8-1-0-3 with earnings of $116,100.

Starfire, a full sister to Shatterstar, and seemingly talent-laden, is currently at 9-0-3-2 with microscopic earnings of $86,250.  She's on-the-board in over 50% of her races, but hasn't won and her purses are pathetic.  Average, but not hopeless.

The sky was the limit for Ultron (War Machine x Nova) but he too has succumbed to the middle of the bell-shaped curve.  His record of 9-0-2-2 and earnings of just $39,000 leave much to be desired.

The past season I produced four foals and the jury is still out.  Nebula (Dubai Gold x Nova) is the only one who has raced and she finished a respectable 3rd.  Not great, not hopeless.  Too soon to tell really.

Going forward, I have a much larger population of foals to test.  Next season, I'll have 9 and in 2015 I'll have 11.  Hopefully, I can break out of this mold of mediocrity.