Pedigrees360 provides three different reports that I pay attention too. The first is the cluster profile which appears on the top left corner of the report. If you are running a hypothetical mating, it will show the potential performance of both the colt or filly. How can the cluster report be different for a colt than a filly. The simple answer is some stallions are known to produce better fillies than colts.
Take Secretariat for example – his best runners and best contributors to the breed were his daughters. Much of that has to do with the Mitachondrial DNA (mtDNA) which can only be passed down through the female line. If the pedigree is full of sires that have passed on large amounts of mtDNA through their daughters, the filly may be the better performer over the colt on the track as well as the breeding shed. The cluster profile is scored using dots, red dots (very slow), yellow dots (competitive) and green dots (very good). Think of the color dots as a stop light..red = stop, do not go forward with the mating, yellow – proceed with caution, and green, go forward!
The second report is Cross Duplication of Sires and Cross Duplication of Mares – this is where we look and see how many times breedshaping families appear in the pedigree on the top (sires) and bottom (Mares). Statistically the best performers on the track and in the breeding she have at least two breedshaping sires appearing in the pedigree 20 times or more and at least two blue hen mares appearing in the pedigree at least 10 times each. This report is a good predictor of race track performance and breeding performance.
The third report is the Sex Balance Report for both the top (sire) and bottom (mare) part of the pedigree. Statistically I want to see at least 5 instances of the mtDNA being transferred down through the generations at least 33% of the time by the daughter, (highlighted in baby blue) on the sire side and at least 2 instances of the mtDNA at least 33% of the time by the daughter on the bottom half of the pedigree (mares). This report is a great indicator of breeding success either as a sire or a broodmare. The more “baby blue boxes” the better