Crossbreeds often have different breed standards than their purebred parents! 

So when breeding the two, you might not always get what’s expected. I’d recommend not grooming your purebreds before breeding them, as there’s a +/-6 difference in your breed standards as opposed to the +/-4 when they’re brushed, so you have a chance of getting better breed standards. 

Then you just breed your highest star cross breeds together to try and get higher ones :) you can also not groom them for a better shot at the right standards.

Never thought of  not grooming before breeding, thanks for the idea. Finding the BS for Warlanders is slow… as most of the resulting foals are 3* giggles. 

ie The sire Friesian  5⋆5e1g

https://horsefable.com/horse/1665478

The dam Andalusian 5⋆5e1g

https://horsefable.com/horse/1960594

The foal 3⋆3e2g1f https://horsefable.com/horse/1965196

Oh well I'll try not grooming next cycle and see if the results change.

Appreciate the help.

For crossbreed breeds that came from a campaign, or generic ones that show as “Crossbreed”, there is a formula. For… what I'm going to call “named” crossbreeds (the crossbreeds that aren't shown as “crossbreed”), the ones that came from a campaign have a formula, and the ones that were present before campaigns do not - you have to find them out the same way you would for a purebreed.

Warlanders would be a case of “named” crossbreeds, alas.

(if you want me to pm you the BS for them, I'd be happy to share just in general - I hoard information so I have BS for everything including stuff I don't breed and don't intend to. Otherwise, I wish you luck with foals and figuring it out)

The question of grooming or not grooming did intrigue me enough to do some calculations and additions to spreadsheets, though. (After using shenanigans to peek at their BS values) I found out that the average BV of the foal would turn out only worse if they were ungroomed - but it's only a difference of 3 points. Best possible BV result would be better than leaving them groomed, but the worst possible value is enough worse to drag the average down.

If you want to play around with my BS Range Calculator (google sheets link), it's meant to help visualize possible BS results from a given pair of horses - but it does unavoidably spoil the desired BS for whatever breed you'd be checking. Up to you!

As a last note, if you have a chance and/or remember later, I am interested to find out if not grooming has a tendency to help or to hurt the BS values in this case - would be nice to know if my predictions are correct.

Good luck!

OMG! Thank you! I have been trying to build EXACTLY this for over a week but I'm stupid with excel or any other spreadsheet (or more the formulas etc) sooooo I am sending HUGE virtual hugs!