Green Movement

[Argent II]

Any green movement horses out there?

[Totina]

Yep. I am trying to breed better movement in horses but I have only been able to get one with green movement so far.

ℬℳ Natural Moves

[Argent II]

I have several, and I'm trying to confirm my suspicion that green/gold movement is the most difficult to attain. Most attributes have relatively low conformation buff thresholds to reach green; I could get green speed, stamina, balance, tempo, or agility with negative conformation buffs in the old format, which translates to <30 for most attributes in the new format. I even have golds that were negatives in the old format, and mid 20s in the new. Strength was incredibly easy to get in the green with store Belgians, despite a relatively high threshold of +6 in the old format and ~+50 in the new one. Movement, on the other hand, has proved exceptionally difficult. My lowest green movement is +13 in the old format, or +55 in the new, and I never did manage to breed a green movement from store Forest Horses or North African Barbs, which have the strongest genetics.

[Totina]

I have seen the same problem with movement. The thing is that all other AC breeds can have green or gold in their best stats when adopted but NABs and Forest Horses never have any green or gold stats, even though movement is supposed to be their best skill.

[Argent II]

I think their conformation is generally fairly poor for movement, while the other breeds tend to actually have conformation to complement their strongest attributes. But I also think that movement just requires higher conformation in general.

[Totina]

Conformation aside, the variation of BR comments on AC NABS and Forest Horses range from slightly bad to positive (not as bad as red stat but not very positive either). The comment "walks in a perfect manner" is, as far as I know, only slightly positive but never enough positive for green stats. "easy on the eyes" and "natural mover" are the only comments that I have seen green. The AC horses don't even have comments of "moves with precision" or "one fine mover" that are, in my experience, better than "perfect manner".

[Argent II]

Very true, but don't forget that conformation effects the BR comments. But yes, for breeds that are supposed to possess the highest movement genetics, the NAB and FH have very modest BR comments for that attribute.

[Argent II]

Still looking