After competing as a rider Schockemöhle became both a breeder and trainer of sport horses.

According to an interview in 2011, he estimated he owns 3,500 horses, including 35 show jumping and dressage stallions.

[2] In 2016, Paul Schockemöhle became the registered owner of all horses of Ukraine's Olympic Show Jumping team when their owner Oleksandr Onyshchenko was indicted for embezzlement before the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Poling is forbidden by the International Equestrian Federation, and spot checks were subsequently carried out at several other German training establishments.

[4] In 2012, PETA filed charges against Schockemöhle and Totilas' co-owner Ann Kathrin Linsenhoff alleging cruelty, claiming the stallion was kept in isolation from others and trained using the controversial method rollkur, which involves hyperflexion of the horse's neck.