Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-26456694-20161030200412/@comment-26347028-20161031235507

SamwiseFilmore wrote: Well, I did a little reading, and here is what I found. So you aren't entirely right, but I'm certainly not either.

"Breeding two horses creates a new horse by averaging the two parent horses with a randomly generated horse. An average/arithmetic mean will always be less than the highest number being averaged, unless all numbers are identical.

By this logic, a perfect horse can be bred if the randomly generated horse is perfect, and both parent horses are perfect, in which case the average of the three perfect horses will be a perfect horse. By extension, without two perfect horses, a perfect horse cannot be bred."

- Minecraft Tutorial/Horse page

And then of course there is some other stuff about colors, but that isn't really relevant to this discussion.

Fair enough. Nevertheless, the horses themselves can easily be kept as breeding stock, and the offspring ridden into battle, causing the offspring to all basically be of a certain standard.