Wikipedia wrote:Totilas, also known from 2006-2011 as Moorlands Totilas, and nicknamed "Toto", is a Dutch Warmblood stallion standing 17.1 hands (69 inches, 175 cm) high who is 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 current 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".
Wikipedia wrote: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.
Dressage-news.com wrote:A huge crowd, many of them in tears along with owners Kees and Tosca Visser, were stunned by the performance in rainy, cold weather. And Gal got a fly in his eye in the warmup and could not get it out until after returning to the stables after the awards. There were a couple of minor errors, a mistake in the one-tempis, for example, but he said he decided not to repeat the movement.
“It felt unbelievable. I’ve never felt anything like it. I don’t know what to say,” he told dressage-news.com after Totilas was put back in his stall.
“Where will it end?
“He does it by himself. He wants to do it. He enjoys it.”
Stephen Clarke, the judge at “C,” told dressage-news.com the ride was the “the best I have ever seen. It was an honor for us all to be here to witness it.”
Gal said when he first tried Totilas, “it was a little scary. He felt like he could explode at any time.”
The breeders invited him to return to keep riding the horse, and a month later Moorland bought him.
“We didn’t know it could be as special as this,” he said, especially after his major Grand Prix mount, Lingh, that he rode in the 2005 World Cup in Las Vegas to beat his then trainer, Anky van Grunsven, in the Grand Prix. The horse was sold to Karin Reed Offield of the United States in 2006.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEvGcIVoHW4 Totilas's record breaking performance in Olympia, 2009.
Totilas has got to be one of the most amazing horses on this planet, and I just had to draw him!
The timer is not correct. :3
Oh and failed human is a fail. xD I was more concerned about Toto. :3
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*Edit:- Oops, everyone else is drawing Halloween based things, and here I am drawing horses, as usual! Oh well, I don't like drawing ghosts and stuff anyway xD I should have taken Edward's head off and called him the headless horseman... xDD
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