Totilas RIP

[ihatework]

https://eurodressage.com/2020/12/15...eOwMaX9905HyUCtyfubzueRhGJ0msqHdQvXNdTp5UBZHQ

RIP Black Beauty

Your training regime was not your fault, you really were a magical horse and I won’t forget your performance at Windsor

 

[Parrotperson]

oh that's very sad. Poor Totilas he had rather a sad life in the end. Gallop free now RIP

 

[eggs]

That is sad news. I saw him at Windsor and Olympia and whilst you can argue that his hind legs didn't match his front legs he definitely had a special aura about him.

 

[milliepops]

so sad. His rise to stardom was a bit of a watershed really.

 

[Nicnac]

So sad. I wonder what the ROI was from breeding over the last 10 years? €11.2M was the price paid in 2010 for a horse who must have cost a fortune in vet fees.

 

[daffy44]

So very sad.

 

[shortstuff99]

Whether you thought he changed it for the better or worse he certainly changed the dressage world. Rest easy Totilas.

 

[hobo]

That is sad they just did his life story in last weeks H&H. He made dressage interesting to my non horsey OH at Olympia.

 

[Cortez]

Passing of a legend, he was exceptional. I wonder if his progeny will achieve as much as he did.

 

[Billyandme]

Very sad. Remember watching him at Windsor. Mesmerising, despite all the wrongs and rights of his trading.

 

[blodwyn1]

I also saw him at Windsor and my non horsey oh was mesmerised by him

 

[ycbm]

So sad. I wonder what the ROI was from breeding over the last 10 years? €11.2M was the price paid in 2010 for a horse who must have cost a fortune in vet fees.

His stud fee was €5000 at the time I saw it. So that would need 2,240 sales of semen to cover just his cost to purchase. A bit over 200 a year, and of course there is still some stored. I've owned a DNA tested horse by a stallion who had been dead 15 years when he was born! It's not impossible they made or will still make a profit, I suppose?

I am so pleased for him that he lived with Rath, I was imagining him as cooped up in a stallion box at the National Stud.

 

[Ownedby4horses]

Gosh, very very sad. What a horse, loved him. RIP lad, you mesmerised the world. x

 

[tristar]

His stud fee was €5000 at the time I saw it. So that would need 2,240 sales of semen to cover just his cost to purchase. Its not impossible they made a profit, I suppose?

I am so pleased for him that he lived with Rath, I was imagining him as cooped up in a stallion box at the National Stud.

the prestige of offering his semen was an attraction to the other stallions owned by the stud no doubt

 

[scats]

Really sad to hear this today. He wasn’t everyone’s thing, but I loved him.

 

[Goldenstar]

Passing of a legend, he was exceptional. I wonder if his progeny will achieve as much as he did.

He was exceptional , EG has two beautiful sons at Grand Prix now one looks better even than his father .

 

[oldie48]

How sad, how could you not be in awe of him when he was at his best? He was very special.

 

[Rowreach]

His stud fee was €5000 at the time I saw it. So that would need 2,240 sales of semen to cover just his cost to purchase. A bit over 200 a year, and of course there is still some stored. I've owned a DNA tested horse by a stallion who had been dead 15 years when he was born! It's not impossible they made or will still make a profit, I suppose?

I am so pleased for him that he lived with Rath, I was imagining him as cooped up in a stallion box at the National Stud.

According to the article it was only €2,800 this year. It will be a lot more than that if they've got any frozen.

Chicken feed compared to NH stud fees though.

 

[nikkimariet]

He was a gamechanger for the dressage world, that’s for sure. I hope he knew how adored he was.

 

[tristar]

His stud fee was €5000 at the time I saw it. So that would need 2,240 sales of semen to cover just his cost to purchase. A bit over 200 a year, and of course there is still some stored. I've owned a DNA tested horse by a stallion who had been dead 15 years when he was born! It's not impossible they made or will still make a profit, I suppose?

I am so pleased for him that he lived with Rath, I was imagining him as cooped up in a stallion box at the National Stud.

they will profit from his reputation through his sons and daughters i see breeding as long term, he was from a proven family himself so the base is there and toto throws himself as all decent stallions should

good to know he had life as a more natural horse

 

[Goldenstar]

Kostolany his Grandsire was a lovely horse .