Question about Discipline

I think she would be best at Driving. There's also a chart of what stats are important for each discipline in the Help section, under Showing.

thanx for the info.

All her conformation is classed as good.  Please could you explain what would happen if I chose endurance instead of driving.  Also the same question applies when I want to breed with her?  This is not explained in the breeding help.

Some foundation horses are a bit inclined towards one spec, but your mare looks like she would be set for just about any spec, and generally, most foundations can be good at any spec.  I pretty much start my foundations to one of the more popular specs of the breed.  I don't breed chincos, but I think endurance is one of theirs.

And conformation doesn't change at all depending on spec, it's simply what they're born with and keep all our lives.  It can go up or down in their foals, so you try to pair with good confos that equal each other out (60 confo with 40 confo) and it goes up over time if you get a little luck.

If you want to breed her, it's best to pair her with another horse of the same specialization to maximize stats in the proper areas in the foal.  It's common practice to not breed a horse until their later years (16+) in order to have a high started foal to start with.

Thanx that helps a lot.

Driving and Endurance have about the same number of Chincoteagues, but Show Jumping (agility and speed) has more Chincoteagues than Driving and Endurance combined.  There are enough Driving and Endurance Chincoteagues to make them worth breeding, however, and your particular horse looks to be better suited to one of those two specialties.

I would advise being careful about what treats you give your horse.  Keep strictly to raising only the stats associated with the specialty you choose, and you can have a quite successful show horse, and breed even better ones.  Every stat you add outside of those two specialty traits will only bump your horse up to a higher show grade without helping it win in that grade.  This is why it is important to be very careful in what treats you use, and only breed to horses with the same specialty, whose owners have also been very careful to keep those non-specialty traits as low as possible.