Some LB stats (I had nothing better to do today than stalk the leaderboards)
***Top 25 AB mare LB as of yr 146***
(Mares with training stats recorded to wk 11 or above)
WK 7
(Traits up to 3 bars)
None up- 5
1 up - 2
2 up - 8
3 up - 7
4 up - 3
*****
WK 11
(Traits up to 4 bars)
0 up - 0
1 up - 0
2 up - 2
3 up - 7
4 up - 12
5 up - 4
***Top 35 AB Stallion LB as of yr 146***
(Stallions with training stats recorded to week 11 or higher)
WK 7
(Traits up to 3 bars)
0 up - 2
1 up - 3
2 up - 13
3 up - 13
4 up - 4
*****
WK 11
(Traits up to 4 bars)
0 up - 0
1 up - 0
2 up - 1
3 up - 7
4 up - 15
5 up - 12
Week 7 training does seem to be a reasonable indicator of strength - horses are unlikely to hit the top of the leaderboard without at least 1 or 2 traits up at week 7.
However week 11 seems a much better indicator of strength generally - no top LB horses had less than 2 traits up by week 11. Sadly as most studs will land on the LB before this it may not be that useful to know this!
Obviously the leaderboards are a pretty good indicator of strength, however as top mares are likely to be sent to top studs I do wonder if there is a slight bias - less proven studs are likely to be sent to mares with poorer stats. It would be nice to have a more defined way of determining strength from training alone. I have been doing experimenting but I think to get an accurate indicator of exactly how fast each stat trains you would need a much longer training record than most people tend to keep.
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