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Totilas (Foaled May 23, 2000), also known from 2006 to 2011 as Moorlands Totilas, and nicknamed "Toto", is a Dutch Warmblood stallion standing 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 of 2015. ==Show career== 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.〔(2005 World Championships for Young Dressage Horses: Total Pleasure with Totilas ), ''eurodressage.com'', July 4, 2005〕〔(“Om de Trakehner te eren” ) (Dutch article about Totilas and his breeders)〕 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."〔("Moorlands Totilas".''Edward Gal.com'' Accessed 2010-10-17 )〕 In July 2009, Gal and Toto broke Anky van Grunsven's world record score in Grand Prix Freestyle〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Search Centre: Results by competitor or horse ) Search fields: Competitor = Gal, Administering NF (National Federation) = NED (Netherlands), Gender=Male〕 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.〔〔 The horse is not free of controversy, particularly due to his training using the highly controversial "LDR" (Low, deep and round) hyperflextion training technique also known as Rollkur, which faces claims of causing physical harm to the horse,〔 and is considered "mental abuse" by the FEI. Critics claim his extravagant paces are anything but natural, but rather a product of harmful training. Thus, the critics accuse 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.〔〔 While 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." While some give primary credit to the skill of Edward Gal as the primary reason the horse has reached such a high level at a very young age for a dressage horse,〔 and at least one writer has wondered if Toto's success is because he is a Gemini,〔 Anne Gribbons, dressage technical adviser for the United States Equestrian Federation, assesses the horse as having simply 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."〔 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.〔 Totilas was retired in 2015 August, after results came back from a recent MRI, showing the horse has bone inflammation in his left hind hoof. The Netherlands’ Edward Gal rode Totilas to gold medals at the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games (Ky.) before the stallion was sold to Schockemöhle and Linsenhof in late 2010. Totilas has since been plagued by injuries, missing out on the 2012 London Olympic Games and 2014 World Games (France). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Totilas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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