Monday, November 1, 2010

An Update to the 2010 WEG

Y'all will remember in my recent blog post on the 2010 World Equestrian Games, I commented that Moorlands Totilas, the horse winning the Gold medal for the Dressage Freestyle (he won the Golds in the Grand Prix dressage competition, the Grand Prix Special, and Team Dressage as well--a highly unusual clean sweep, plus his Freestyly scored 92%--this is like scoring a perfect 10 folks!) was sold shortly after the WEG was over to Paul Schockemule of Germany. Dressage-News.com posted the news that Totilas was slated to breed 175 mares this season out of 350 applications, before he was sold. Mr. Schockemule paid the equivalent of $13.2 million for this 10-year-old stallion, so we should expect to see lots of Jrs running around in a few years! I hope they're half as good as their daddy is.