Equus Nexus

11/06/2024

17/05/2023

Belle. A very nice young lady.

14/05/2023

Frog on the move.

21/04/2023

This young lady Bell has joined us for some education.

18/04/2023

Who else struggled with the rain last weekend?

05/04/2023

Jorge doing his gymnastic workouts.

03/04/2023

Mornings with a view.

21/03/2023

Young stallion Arturo demonstrating following the lead through body cues.

20/03/2023

Michael always has someone ready to help.

16/03/2023

Our lovely ladies.

16/03/2023

Testing the water at Elcho Park.

14/03/2023

6 yo bay gelding Damon Bfd. Had a bit of extra time to mature due to no fault of his own and now about to be backed with Equus Nexus.

12/03/2023

4 month old filly by Luxius, already a very curious young lady.

03/03/2023

Using lateral exercises to create engagement and "sit". Louise van Gaal and her stallion Rose Noir Bfd (Sammy) at a recent Sophia Valenca clinic.

08/02/2023

It was a super clinic as always. Huge steps forward in everyone's equitation and understanding of what we are seeking. Loved it

Thanks everyone for your support. Louise

22/11/2022

We're on the road to somewhere.... 2021 breeding

Rubinesque Bfd (Bess) by Rosario IFS from Unity Bfd (Riptide Bfd) and Holsteiner stallion Luxius IFS (Lux Z x Acrobat II). Bess is also the dam of the stallion Rose Noir Bfd - Louise's riding horse and foal in this picture.

20/11/2022

Had a great day at Working Equitation Geelong teaching 3PE (even though the weather did turn on us in the afternoon). Well done for everyone for sticking it out.

Nice idea here for making the bollards more attractive and that's a handsome bull - he didn't mind the rain. :D

Louise

18/11/2022

One of our young horses getting started under saddle.

18/11/2022

Young Kal participating in MoVember.

15/11/2022

We had a great Working Equitation clinic at Elcho Park on Saturday. The focus for riders in session 1 was using turns to create bend rather than using the reins and legs to manipulate the horse.

We divide the training of the obstacles into two groups. Those that help with bending and those that help with straightening. Then we use both those groups of obstacles to increase suppleness and collection.

It is very easy for riders to see how classical dressage principles can be applied to the practical applications of Working Equitation. That is also why my dressage clinics run at Oakover Lodge are referred to as CDPA clinics (Classical Dressage Practically Applied). :D

Here's some video we shot with the Go Pro of Sammy doing turn around the forehand. Once you go past the "learning how to do it" you start to discover that mobilising the hindquarter & stabilising the forehand in TOF has huge advantages and works harmoniously with stabilising the hindquarters & mobilising the forehand in turn around the haunches.

01/11/2022

An old memory. But for the lovers of Arabian horses check out 53.30

For the best part of twenty years (1970’s to 1990’s) Robert owned the historic homestead ‘Spray Farm’ on the Bellarine Peninsula and created the popular ‘The...

22/10/2022

It's spring time, the weather is warming up (apparently) and we want to get out with our horses (if we can). It's a good time to do a bit of float maintenance, specially with the damaged roads we are driving on following all this rain.

We nearly had an incident this week. One pothole too many on the passenger side of the road snapped off a u-bolt under the float causing the axel to shift. Luckily for us our float has a wide distance between wheels so they didn't interfere and we were able replace the bolts (we did them all just to be safe) without harm done.

But remember that your float is going to be taking more punishment than you intend at the moment.

22/10/2022

20/10/2022

16 hooves done. Mares get a feed and I hope I might have lost a kg. 🤣 Never happens though. LvG.