Moonlight Manor Horse Riding

28/02/2025

Tough gig, guys. Three of them having naps, the rest all hanging around & snoozing.
Tough gig…..

26/02/2025

As it turns out, I was WRONG about our show jump results, we *actually* came 7th!!!! (Out of 63 riders)
What a great thing to be wrong about!!
In the 45cm round, Hercs honestly thought the flower jump wings were gonna eat him…. 🤣🤣

24/02/2025

🌟 Agistment Vacancies Now Available at Moonlight Manor Horse Riding!🌟

Looking for a premium herd based agistment service that puts your horse's health and wellbeing first? Look no further! Moonlight Manor, located in peaceful New Beith, QLD, is now offering 3 available vacancies for our full-care agistment service. 🐴

Owned and operated by Liz Brown, having a BMgt (Equine Business) with specialisation in nutritional management of horses, we provide all feed and individualised meal plans to ensure your horse receives the best care possible. 🌿🥕🍏

🏡 Our facilities include:
- 25 acre main paddock with a mix of clear and bush areas, allowing your horse to run and thrive as part of a herd in a natural environment
- Oxley Creek running through the property, adding to the peaceful and enriching atmosphere
- Access to agistees tack room, flood-lit arena & round yard, and nearby trails for endless riding opportunities 🏇
- A supportive, friendly community of like-minded horse enthusiasts

👩‍🌾 Our service includes:
- Twice daily hard feeds in individual yards
- Rugs on and off as required in cold or inclement weather
- Vet, Farrier, Dental, Worming and Vaccination days organised for you on schedule 👨‍⚕️
- Invoicing, Health and Service records maintained online with owner access to horse records via mobile app

At Moonlight Manor, we believe in providing the best for both horses and owners. We are committed to offering a natural and caring environment for your horse to flourish, and a relaxed atmosphere for the community of owners and riders.

Spots are limited! 🐎✨ Contact Liz today to secure your place and ensure your horse gets the care it deserves!

📞 0420 310 669
📧 [email protected]
🌐 https://moonlightmanorhorseriding.com

NB. Hendra vaccination is required, sorry no miniatures

17/02/2025

Hercules decided his head was too heavy to hold up on his own this morning….

14/02/2025

Some of you are aware that Indy-dog had a trip to the animal hospital in Jindalee on Tuesday night/morning.
I noticed that evening she was a bit restless down at the arena, but I didn’t realise HOW restless until we made it to the house (I figured she was doing her very important dog things!) that’s when I noticed she was REALLY distressed, scratching around her throat. Her respiration was through the roof & she absolutely would not settle & was even whining & whimpering. My first thought was snake bite & rushed her off to the vets.
I had her urine tested, blood tested & checked over. Including blood clotting in case she had eaten rat bait (she had before 🤦‍♀️). Everything showed up in the clear. Took her home around 2:30am. She still wouldn’t settle & then was scratching like mad, so I dragged her into our shower & washed her - she’s a farm dog, she was NOT IMPRESSED 🤣. She never goes upstairs, let alone into our shower! She stayed up with us, but she never settled despite pain relief.
I spoke to HoofnPaws, one of my main vets, on Wed morning & gave her an appropriate antihistamine & more pain relief.
She FINALLY settled around Wednesday afternoon. I also realised just how swollen her skin was around her throat.

I’m still not sure what it was. Fire ants maybe, or maybe a less venomous snake. They test for the major ones.

At any rate, she was back to her normal self on Thursday & I took the morning classes off, I was pretty wrecked after looking after her, not to mention the emotional strain. She’s 11 years old now, so no spring chicken, but she’s got a few years yet! I don’t know what any of us would do without her barking at everyone & sitting in the arena in everyone’s way!

04/02/2025

Dearest Vincent Van Dog grew his angel wings today. Not that he came to the horse yards very often any more. He would still stagger up & do his important dog things. His arthritis medication was no longer having an effect & at 15 years young, it was decided it was time for him to be freed.
Run my friend, like you once did as you were faster than the wind.
Go & be with Luke & Buffy, they’re waiting for you

24/01/2025

We would have been “riders on the storm” had we been in the saddle.

Greenbank dome held out, but it made for some spectacular cloud formations!

22/01/2025

A successful day camp, despite the temperature getting to 38.9oC! At least the humidity was low. All the girls were amazing coping with it & all the horses got a glorious cooling pampering shampoo for their amazing efforts!

These horses, are just so kind & patient & I love them all!

15/01/2025

Natalie was super thrilled when I presented her with this shirt & I said she absolutely had to wear it to her dressage lesson….. it’s so Natalie’s style (it really isn’t…. 🤣🤣🤣)
We both co own Baldur, I named him Baldur’s Gait with a play on the spelling of Gate.

I stumbled across these shirts on RedBubble & just couldn’t resist……

Baldur, also Baldr is a Norse god & part of Norse mythology. Baldur’s Gate is one of the original computerised AD&D games.

I’ll often name horses after mythology, medieval or science fiction themes.

So here’s Baldur’s Gait being ridden at his fancy dressage lesson with Natalie sporting the coolest T-shirt she has ever worn!

14/01/2025

Nomad was REALLY wanting to help me make breakfast feeds…. I think he would do elevensies, 2nd breakfast, 3rd & 4th breakfast if offered…..

11/01/2025

For the most part, the Greenbank Dome held!
First Saturday of lessons & we had rain, lol.

My teenage years were all outside of Melbourne. Our philosophy was, if you didn’t ride in the rain, you didn’t ride!

Guess we can change that to Brisbane now…..

09/01/2025

This is sooooooo true. People often ask me how to improve. Two key things. Overall reasonable fitness is one.
The second, ride, ride, ride. The miles are the key. There is a point in riding where things get a bit monotonous. It's because you've reached a point where, you can only learn enough as your stability will allow you & to take it to the next step, you have to develop better stability. There is only ONE way to achieve that.........

This may be too simplistic to be worth saying, but here goes---The best way to get used to the feeling of riding, to get in tune with the motions of a horse, is to ride as many hours as many days a week as you can manage to do.

For some, that’s impossible, for any number of reasons. Others have access and the time, but choose not to spend much time riding. That leaves the relative few who have access, time and desire. It will be no surprise when these riders improve.

“Fairness” and “equal opportunity” don’t have anything to do with this. Either someone can or she can’t. The better riders are usually the same riders who figure out how to get in lots and lots of riding time.

This is not a difficult concept to understand.

If you want to get better, spend more time looking between more ears.

08/01/2025

🤔🤔🤔

05/01/2025

Smurf?” or Blue da ba dee da ba di???

Natalie did call him Smurfette…..

14/12/2024

Apparently, it was pouring around Brisbane & even flash flooding & we barely got a drop!

People will have heard me say it’s the Greenbank Dome! It really is a thing. We’re either dry when everyone else is copping it OR we’ve got hail & lightning that hits trees & everywhere else is dry 🤣.

The Greenbank Dome is a real thing!