Moorlands Totilas
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| Breed | Dutch Warmblood (KWPN) |
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| Sire | Gribaldi (Trakehner) |
| Dam | Lominka (KWPN) |
| Maternal grandsire | Glendale (KWPN) |
| Sex | Stallion |
| Foaled | 2000 |
| Country |
 Netherlands
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| Colour | Black |
| Breeder | J.K.Schuil & A. Visser |
| Owner | Paul Schockemöhle, Ann-Kathrin Linsenhoff |
| Rider | Edward Gal, Matthias Alexander Rath |
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| Representing Netherlands
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| Equestrian | ||
| World Championships | ||
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2010 Lexington | Team Dressage |
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2010 Lexington | Individual special dressage |
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2010 Lexington | Individual freestyle dressage |
| European Championships | ||
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2009 Windsor | Team Dressage |
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2009 Windsor | Individual freestyle dressage |
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2009 Windsor | Individual special dressage |
Totilas (foaled May 23, 2000), also known from 2006 to 2011 as Moorlands Totilas, and nicknamed "Toto", is a Dutch Warmblood stallion standing 17.1 hands (69 inches, 175 cm) high who was considered to be one of the most outstanding competitive dressage horses in the world, the first horse to score above 90 in dressage competition, and the former holder of the world record for the highest dressage score in Grand Prix Freestyle Dressage. Going into the 2010 FEI World Equestrian Games (WEG), Moorlands Totilas and his rider, Edward Gal, had amassed multiple world-record scores in international competition, leading one American journalist to call them "rock stars in the horse world". Totilas was retired from competition in August 2015.
Totilas was bred by Jan K. Schuil and Anna Schuil-Visser in Broeksterwâld (Broeksterwoude) in the Netherlands. They gave him his basic training. Upon entering major competition at age five, he was ridden by Jiska van den Akker and exhibited at the 2005 World Breeding Championships for Young Horses at Verden, Germany. There he distinguished himself as the best horse from the Netherlands, and placed fourth in the final ranking of five-year-old dressage horses. Also in 2005, his owners contacted Edward Gal and asked him to ride and compete Totilas. In 2006, after Gal began working with the horse, his sponsors Cees (also spelled Kees) and Tosca Visser purchased Totilas in the name of their investment company, Moorland BV. After this purchase the horse competed under the name "Moorlands Totilas".
Totilas was ridden throughout most of his international Grand Prix career by Gal, under the flag of the Netherlands. Gal first began working with Toto in 2006 and the pair started to compete in 2008. Gal and the team of people who worked with the horse understood that Toto was "something special" after their first Grand Prix (GP) competition, with Gal later stating, "He has an incredible amount of talent; it’s simply a pleasure to ride him."
In July 2009, Gal and Toto broke Anky van Grunsven's world record score in Grand Prix Freestyle with an 89.50% mark at Hickstead, England, and shortly thereafter followed it up breaking their own record with a score of 90.75% at the 2009 FEI European Jumping and Dressage Championships. In December 2009, at the fourth leg of the 2009–10 FEI World Cup Dressage series at Olympia in London, they extended their record in GP Freestyle to 92.30%, more than 10 points above the second-place finisher. They won that season's FEI World Cup final with a win in GP Freestyle at home in the Netherlands, winning by more than 7 points with a score better than their first world record. The pair also have a world-record score in the Grand Prix Special discipline to their credit, having recorded 86.460% at Aachen in July 2010.
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