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Friday, August 14, 2015
Star stallion Totilas and rider Matthias Rath verpatzen EM-Gold. Later, the German team admits: There was a clock impurity that results from an injury. Consequence: Totilas occurs when the EM no longer – and will talk about his career end .
With the injury-related off at the European Dressage Championships Also the career of the stallion Totilas million under rider Matthias Rath (Kronberg) is likely to draw to a close. One thing was clear in Aachen: The shiny black stallion has no strength
Still keeping the parties concerned with forecasts of Blessur on the hind leg back.. “So far we can not think right now because we do not know the cause of the injury,” said the German team boss Klaus Roeser overlooking Olympia 2016. And Rider President Breido Graf zu Rantzau thought to a possible career-off: “I can not judge. ” And added: “We do not see the premature end but the first time with him.”
More and more came the million horse in recent years personal injury to the victim. 2012 There was still the illness of rider Matthias Rath, who brought the Olympic Off. 2013 was when Totilas an injury after a breeding season, 2014 Blessur on Ueberbein 2015 now an impurity in the left hind leg. No team leader can afford to nominate these Wackelkandidaten again next year for the Olympics. And after that Totilas has 17 years almost too old for competition at the highest level. One has to get used to that this exceptional horse in sport will soon no longer makes his rounds.
Myth thanks million Total
What had the stallion leave at his obligation by Paul Schockemöhle 2010 bloom for dreams? Just the alleged purchase price of ten million euros created a myth around the most expensive dressage horse in the world, everyone wanted to see. Where he performed, the grandstands filled, the media stood in line. Even absolute Equestrian lay suddenly knew a dressage horse.
The myth was accompanied but also always rumors. Mostly it came to injuries. In Aachen, a veterinarian already wanted him pull the medical check-up before the first start out of circulation. In the Grand Prix several judges saw the injury, the couple had the receipt: Only 75.971 percent. Germany slipped to third place, Totilas was in the individual ranking only sixth.
The day after the Totilas bearing the injury left hind leg was then and rose before the individual competition in Special and Freestyle from EM from. Totilas has been brought to the hospital, and the tournament makers had to do without their biggest star. Like last year, as the four-legged and his rider had disembarked at the CHIO for the Special. “Totilas is a star in the dressage world. Many will be sad. But this decision, we accept wholeheartedly,” said EM-boss Frank Kemperman.
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Among the losers of the tragedy certainly also includes the German team management. Again and again had to Roeser and national coach Monica Theodorescu listen in recent days accused of having taken an injured horse to EM. In addition, there had been too many special regulations for the industry star who had to complete only about a sighting. “We will worry because of this experience, as our Sichtungsweg look to Rio”, Roeser announced and spoke of a “learning process”.
Although there was a debate at the vet check and many professionals, the impurity in the clock itself saw from the coffee from the team management maintained its version, to have recognized the severity of the injury until after the competition. “Every horse has somewhere a problem,” Roeser said and made it clear: “. It was not that we could not nominate best conscience Totilas”
Source: n-tv.de
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