Moorlands Totilas was a Dutch Warmblood stallion standing 17. 1 hands high. He was the first horse to score above 90 in dressage competition, and the former holder of the world record for the highest dressage score. The horse was retired from competition in August 2015 and died on 14 December 2020 due to complications from colic.
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Moorlands Totilas was a Dutch Warmblood stallion standing 17. 1 hands high. He was 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. The horse was retired from competition in August 2015 and died on 14 December 2020 due to complications from colic. He is survived by his rider, Edward Gal, and his owners, Cees and Tosca Visser. The pair were triple gold medalists at the 2010 FEI World Equestrian Games, becoming the first. horse–rider partnership ever to sweep the three available dressage gold medals at a single FEI. World Games. Totil as was bred by Jan K. Schuil and Anna SchUil-Visser in Broeksterwâld 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.
In 2006, after Gal began working with the horse, his sponsors Cees and TosCA Vissers purchased TotilAS in the name of their investment company, Moorland BV. After this purchase the horse competed under the name ‘Moorland TotilAs’ and was ridden throughout most of his international Grand Prix career by Gal. Gal and Toto broke Anky van Grunsven’s world record score in GP 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 Aachen in July 2010. In December 2009, at the fourth leg of the 2009–10 World Cup Dressage series at Olympia in London, they extended their record 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 GPFreestyle at home in Netherlands, winning by more than 7 points with a scored better than their first world record.
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