I got my Chocobo up to race rank 43 with head start for his ability, so he was very good. I spent all my mgp won getting him grade 3 food and also spent a fortune of gold on class 2 food. I didn't want to get rid of him, but reading about max levels I decided to retire him so I could breed a better chocobo. I bought a grade 9 female breeding permit and I retired him and got no breeding pedigree.

Now I'm finally realizing they have a rank which levels with experience seperate from their race rank, with the other rank needing to be high enough to get the breeding pedegree. Either way either its bugged or confusing, sucks I can't get my chocobo back or a pedigree for him, so I have nothing to so for any of the work/money I invested in him. Making a new grade 1 chocobo from scratch isn't something I want to do.