Total Hope OLD

Burg Cup, Louisdor Prize winner, World Cup participant, European freestyle program tenth

Tenth place in Riesenbeck’s European Freestyle – and with a new personal best of 82.593 percent. And qualification for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris/FRA is in the bag. Under his trainer Isabel Freese/NOR, Total Hope made the leap into the world elite in record time, as he was already successful at the World Championships in Herning/DEN, Denmark in 2022 - mind you, his first Grand Prix season. Total Hope had previously won the Nuremberg Burg Cup in 2019 and the Louisdor Prize in 2021, something that no other stallion had ever achieved in the long history of the two most important young horse tests. And both times he won in an absolutely impressive manner - and well ahead of the strong competition. The judges awarded grades of up to 10 for his piaffes, passages and tempo changes in the Grand Prix final in Kronberg - a total of 77.540 percent. “That was a very mature idea,” commented Dr. Dietrich Plewa. “What is particularly impressive about this horse is that nothing seems to be addressed or mechanical. This is the result of systematic training.”

Without a doubt: Total Hope inherited the talent for the highest levels of assembly from its parents. These are none other than Totilas and Weihegold OLD.

Total Hope started his career as a Swedish licensing winner, dressage horse champion, World Dressage Horse Championship finalist (6 years old) and World Championships bronze winner (7 years old).

With Royal Hope G OLD, Total Hope produced the 2023 Oldenburg champion mare, which also won gold at the state championships and silver at the federal championships under the saddle of Tanja Fischer. Several sons were licensed. Furstepoppel/Emma Ahlberg/SWE took part in the World Championships for five-year-old dressage horses in Verden. Total Target, already placed internationally in dressage horse tests, was one of the top offers at the P.S.I. auction. Terpling's Tiffany, champion foal in Denmark, cost 46,000 euros at the Danish foal auction, Total Amour was the top price at the 2021 DSP online auction at 25,500 euros, just like Total Niro the following year.

The father Totilas, 2009 European Championship double and 2010 World Championship triple gold winner, fascinated people far beyond the dressage arena. The multiple world record holder and World Cup winner produced 45 approved sons for breeding. His Grand Prix-successful offspring, which competed in record-breaking numbers at the Olympic Games, World Championships and European Championships, catapulted Totilas directly into the top ten of the world's best dressage sires. He is currently in sixth place in the WBFSH ranking.

The dam Weihegold OLD was an Oldenburg champion mare, Burg Cup and Louisdor Prize winner and, under Isabell Werth, Olympic and three-time World Cup winner as well as four-time European champion. She also produced the licensed Jewels Sir Weibach (by Sir Donnerhall I), who was successful up to Grand Prix with Tristan Tucker/AUS. The daughters of Weihegold OLD also became stallion mothers. Her daughter St.Pr.St., which was placed up to Inter I, Weihcera Royal NG (by Zack) became the dam of the licensed and Inter I-winning For Gold (by Franziskus)/Stefanie Wolf. Fürstin Weihe (by Fürst Romancier) produced the licensed and St. Georges successful Damon Gold OLD (by Damon Hill). The St.Pr.St. Weihcine (by Fürst Heinrich) produced the Oldenburg reserve champion and Dodo Weihgand (by Diamond Hit), who was placed up to M** dressage level, as well as the mare Weihdira (by De Niro), whose son Seattle, descended from So Perfect, was licensed in Hanover in 2023 . The Weihdira full sister Weihnira produced the licensed Iowa Gold (by Asgard’s Ibiza). The licensed state championship bronze winner Viva Gold (by Vivaldi) comes from the Weihegold daughter Weihronce (by For Romance I). The Weihegold subsidiary St.Pr.St. Aweih H (by Apache) is successful at S level with Stefanie Wolf in the saddle and became the mother of the Westphalian champion stallion Extra Gold (by Escolar). The licensed L’Avenir (by Le Formidable) comes from Weihe’s Hope (by Sir Donnerhall I). The Weihegold son Special Gold PCH (by San Amour I) placed at the top in S* dressage classes in 2023 under Katharina Hemmer. His half-brother Vitally PCH (by Vitalis) came fourth under Anna Schölermann in the 2023 Federal Championship final for five-year-old dressage horses.

Weihegold OLD is a daughter of Don Schufro. For years he was a leader in the German dressage breeding value estimation, internationally victorious up to Grand Prix and in 2008 bronze winner in Hong Kong/HKG with the Danish team.

From the grandmother St.Pr./El.St. Weihestolz (by Fidertanz), Weihe Glanz (by United) and Tripple Her son Total Recall (by Totilas) was the absolute top foal price in Vechta at 200,000 euros and has already collected Grand Prix successes.

Through the sire legends Figaro and Vollkorn xx, the maternal roots lead to the Oldenburg mare family Weissena (by Folkert-Goldengel etc.) from which the licensed stallions Lux Dressage Statesman OLD (by Stedinger), Inselfürst (by Inschallah AA), Canaster I and II (by Caprimond) as well as Triumphator and Top of Class (both by Titus).

Totilas times consecration gold.