Profitable business with Totilas
Zoff over the sperm of the dead millionaire stallion
03/26/2022, 11:58 am
Totilas, the horse of millions, has been dead for a little over a year. The once celebrated wonder stallion is still the focus of a major dispute. His former owners are arguing in court about the frozen semen of the former dressage horse. This can be sold lucratively.
According to a report in the “Bild” newspaper, a dispute broke out over the sperm of the exceptional dressage horse Totilas, who died a little over a year ago. The last Totilas owner Paul Schockemöhle and the previous owner and breeder Kees Visser face each other. The stallion Totilas died of colic in December 2020 at the age of 20.
Totilas was also successful in lucrative deck work. Even after his death, frozen expensive sperm is still being sold. According to the website of the Schafhof stud farm for his former rider Matthias Alexander Rath, the stud fee is 4,000 euros.
According to the “Bild”, Visser is said to have withheld sperm from the horse, contrary to agreements, when Schockemöhle bought Totilas in October 2010 for ten million euros. The entrepreneur from Mühlen in Lower Saxony and former world-class show jumper obtained an injunction prohibiting Visser from selling.
Visser has denied the collusion and is now suing Schockemöhle in the Netherlands. “I’m pretty calm about the matter,” said 77-year-old Schockemöhle of “Bild”.
Gold-Garant failed to meet expectations
In his sporting career, Totilas had been marveled at and admired like no other dressage horse before him. When it was presented by Schockemöhle in Germany in autumn 2010, there was a huge media hype about the supposed gold guarantor.
Totilas had his greatest successes under his Dutch rider Edward Gal. At the 2010 World Championships – a few months before the sale to Germany – Totilas and Gal won three gold medals in Lexington in the USA. After the sale to Schockemöhle, Totilas was unable to meet expectations with his new rider Rath, also for health reasons. After the EM 2015 in Aachen he was taken out of the sport.
Totilas was last at the Schafhof in Kronberg im Taunus with Rath and his family. Totilas’ offspring are in demand.