Quote Originally Posted by Lollie View Post
... if your chocobo is rank 40 or higher, not rating 40...
This has been causing mistakes ever since the gold saucer released. I think it was kind of poor design to give the race chocobos two parallel leveling systems. (And given that they have two often confused leveling systems, the message about breeding when you go to retire one shouldn't be a generic "requirement is rank 40" message, but a "your chocobo meets the requirement" or "your chocobo doesn't meet the requirement" message.)