Normally, Id put this in sport horse breeding, but this is also dressage news,LOL
Toto will be available for breeding this year.
Thursday, announcement as to stud fee,etc–as well as if frozen available (which is being checked on right now)
Forget the check book, will we have to win the lotto to afford it? :lol:
No thanks. If my foals don’t sell, I’m stuck with them for life. I need to be able to RIDE my own horse. 
He’ll only be worth it if he passes on his movement…producing in the ring is not the same as producing in the breeding shed. Looking forward to see what his stud fee is going to be.
Have they been collecting him all along? If not will be interesting if he changes with the breeding.
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No thanks. If my foals don’t sell, I’m stuck with them for life. I need to be able to RIDE my own horse. ;)[/QUOTE]
YUP!
Gribaldi has some amazing babies out there to look at, but riding them is a totally different thing :lol:
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Here is info on stud fee - 5000 Euro!
http://www.horseandcountry.tv/news/totilas-stand-stud[/QUOTE]
In that article it said 4kE. Which is about 5k US. I wonder where the forms are.
I’ve yet to see a stallion (other than a racing and winning TB) that’s worth that kind of money…:eek:
YIKES, especially since they dont know what he’ll put on the ground yet!
I’m sure someone will risk it, LOL.
He has some foals on the ground already. :yes:
here is the original article H&C used for their version
http://www.eurodressage.com/news/breeding/kwpn/2010/totilas.html
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He has some foals on the ground already. :yes:[/QUOTE]
Reeealy? I’m curious to see how they do!
In the grand scheme of things, I really don’t think that stud fee will keep people away if his foals do well…
Pfffft! That’s a losing TB :lol:
I agree that 5K is a lot, but then, Toto is quite the sensation. Think about how much those babies will be worth even if the pop out fugly as the day is long!
The thing is
it isn’t like you stick a straw in a mare and get a healthy foal, even a fugly one, automatically. With a complicated mare and less than optimal semen, you might easily spend $5000 in vet bills. Totilas is an incredible horse. But I doubt tons of journeymen breeders will be beating down the door at $5,000.
If you have a nice mare, there is always the “private treaty” 
Hey let the market decide. I think it great that he will be offered.
For the $5000 you get three doses, and if the mare doesn’t get in foal you get 25% back, or a free breeding to Bodyguard. Totilas will be frozen semen only, and only to approved mares.
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He has some foals on the ground already. :yes:[/QUOTE]
Are there any pictures? Would love to see them. Any in Germany or are they all in the Netherlands?
Heck I’d risk it… I don’t think 5000E is unreasonable at all. Even if I couldn’t manage to ride the beastie myself, I’m quite confident I could find a buyer to recover my costs. I’m not a huge fan of Toto’s movement, but all the same it seems like it would be a sound investment (relative to the gamble that is horse breeding). Sadly I don’t have a mare, and I don’t have 5000 Euros burning the proverbial hole in my very shallow pockets!
I realize how stupid this sounds, forgive me. But…In what way are Gribaldi horses hard to ride? Totilas doesn’t look like he has a nerve in his body. He walks out of the ring with the reins hanging down. Nothing seems to startle him. He just looks like he likes to move…a LOT.
Yea, I completely agree with slc. Of world class horses, he looks like one of the easier ones to ride. Edward Gal has even said so himself, he’s just a passenger. Pretty sure I could hop on him right now and do a Grand Prix on him, and if you think I’m wrong I’ll bet you $1,000, so lets set it up eh!? Just hook it up so I can ride a Grand Prix on Totilas and you can possibly end up $1,000 richer! :winkgrin:
Seriously though, he looks like he rides alot like an Andalusian which I find a lot easier to sit than many WBs.
