Totilas Before Edward Gal - 5 Years Old

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.[4][5] Also in 2005, his owners contacted Edward Gal and asked him to ride and compete Totilas.[6] 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.[1][6][7] After this purchase, the horse competed under the name "Moorlands Totilas".[8]

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,[3] with Gal later stating, "He has an incredible amount of talent; it’s simply a pleasure to ride him."[1]

In July 2009, Gal and Toto broke Anky van Grunsven's world record score in Grand Prix Freestyle[9] with an 89.50% mark at Hickstead, England, and shortly thereafter followed it up breaking their own record with a score of 90.75% and win gold at the 2009 FEI European Jumping and Dressage Championships.[10] The pair also won a silver in the special dressage and gold in the team dressage event.[11] 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.[10] 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.[12] 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.[9][13] The pair were triple gold medalists at the 2010 FEI World Equestrian Games,[13][14] becoming the first horse–rider partnership ever to sweep the three available dressage gold medals (team, special and freestyle) at a single FEI World Games.[13]

The horse's career was not free of controversy, particularly due to his training using the highly controversial "LDR" (low, deep and round) hyperflexion training technique also known as Rollkur, which faces claims of causing physical harm to the horse,[15] and is considered "mental abuse" by the FEI.[16] Critics claimed that his extravagant paces were not natural, but rather a product of harmful training, accusing Totilas' trainers of artificially inflating dressage scores and corrupting the fundamentals of the sport. One German equestrian magazine compared his performances to those in a circus.[17][18] The head of the World Cup judging panel at the Olympia competition in London dismissed such criticism, saying, "People should be big enough to recognise brilliance when they see it."[18]

While some give primary credit to the skill of Gal as the primary reason the horse reached such a high level at a very young age for a dressage horse,[3] Anne Gribbons, dressage technical adviser for the United States Equestrian Federation, assessed Totilas as having taken the sport to a new level: "He is capable of such power and balance while he's in motion that it is almost beyond what most other horses can do."[3]

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