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March 2025 by qbdmar qbdmar
Fun, safe, and interesting 2-hour trail ride using natural horsemanship. Jacklyn shows great love and care towards her horses, dogs and cats, and that extends as well to her riding guests.
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January 2025 by Philip Curry
Jacqueline and her team were friendly, knowledgeable, and passionate about what they do. The horses were well-cared-for and matched perfectly to each rider’s experience level. Great experience.
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April 2024 by Mike Monear
This place is the best ?
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November 2023 by Sara Currie
Our horse back ride with Jacklyn was the highlight of our trip! She is extremely gifted at teaching people with any level of h riding experience how to feel comfortable on the ride. The views on our ride were absolutely breathtaking, and Jacklyn gave us a ton of information on the wildlife and nature in the area. I already wish we could go back!
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October 2023 by Oats H.
Booked a last minute two-hour trail ride with Jacklyn. Jacklyn is professional and effective when it comes to communication. I am an equestrian myself and my friend who went along with me had her second horse ride. We both had a blast and learned so much from Jacklyn. She made sure my friend was comfortable and confident with her pony. She's wonderful at making her horses her priority (safety firsts, pony welfares first, then humans). She taught us so much about the geography, plants, and every living thing around us during our ride. Even though I had prior knowledge of horses, I learned so much from Jacklyn about her approach to the natural horsemanship. I cannot thank her enough for the good experience and energy she has brought to us. I can't wait to come here again and bring more of my non-horsie friends too! If you're ready to come out of your concrete shell and be present with nature, please do yourself a favor and book a ride with Jacklyn.
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October 2023 by Sara C.
Our horse back ride with Jacklyn was the highlight of our trip! She is extremely gifted at teaching people with any level of riding experience how to feel comfortable on the ride. She is clear and direct on how to ride the horses in a way that puts you and them in a position of safety. Jacklyn noticed how comfortable I was on the ride and even let me lead on the way back which was wonderful. The views on our ride were absolutely breathtaking, and Jacklyn gave us a ton of information on the wildlife and nature in the area. It brings me a lot of gratitude knowing that supporting crazy horse ranch means supporting a horse rescue center. It is clear that she wants to give the horses under her possession the best possible lives. I already wish we could go back!
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June 2023 by Eddie Cooper
Great ride, loved the horses, cute dogs too! Jacklyn has a very southern feel to her personality, and it was a lot of fun. Patience was key as we learned how to ride. Definitely a great time, even for first time riders. Worth calling, reserving and paying a visit for sure. Thank you, crazy horse ranch!
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May 2023 by Sam
Excellent trail ride with Jaclyn. Jaclyn’s passion for the horses and surrounding area gave us a trail ride to never forget. The trail ride took us up into the mountains where we rode though many different types of plants, trees, and cacti. The views were outstanding. Jaclyn’s knowledge of the horses and local plants made for a fun and personal learning experience. Will be coming back soon!
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March 2023 by Julie G.
Dear Reader,It will no doubt be difficult for you to square the bad reviews of Crazy Horse Ranch with the good ones. Believe me, I get it. It's almost like there are two Jacklyn's - one who is super friendly and professional and competent at teaching natural horsemanship, and another who is belligerent, mean, short-tempered, misanthropic, and a terrible teacher. If you choose to go, you'll be flipping that cowboy coin at your own risk. Sadly, we experienced the latter. She was gruff when we got there - fine, we get it, she had to prep the horses, etc., but I did have a bad feeling from the start. She demanded cash up front, plus a tip, so we handed her a giant wad of money for a one-and-a-half hour ride. Getting ready, she barked instructions, and I understand you have to be direct for the sake of expediency, but things devolved - deleteriously -- from there. She put us on a couple of horses who seemed... well... a bit tired, a bit dusty. We asked their ages. 36 years old and 31. (I was told by those in the know, later, that no horse older than about 16 should be sent out on such rides.) We are not experienced horse-people, but we are athletic, sturdy and coordinated, as well as animal lovers with some intuition, and with above-average acuity for learning new things. We reasonably assumed that forking over close to $600 was a pretty good exchange for receiving a decent lesson. We were wrong. She treated us like idiots, barked all manner of instructions at us in rapid fire, often contradicting herself. She made us repeat stupid mantras that didn't teach us anything about how to ride a horse, like: "Eyes, ears, nose, arms" - just nonsense.Jacklyn practices "natural" horsemanship, which means a lot of things, and which I surely appreciate, but for our purposes it meant we were not allowed to use the stirrups, which means you can't take any pressure off your body, not an easy thing for newbies. We were also not allowed to use the pommel to stabilize ourselves, for reasons she would not explain. She corrected us constantly about our form - Sit forward in the saddle! Sit your butt back in the saddle! Suck your stomach in! Look up and enjoy the view! Look where your horse is going! Don't look down! Don't lead it too hard! Lead harder! My head spinning until I'm afraid to do anything at all. She chewed us out for doing every damn little thing wrong to the point where we were afraid to do anything at all, thus increasing our stress and tension, thereby undermining any potential learning that might have transpired. Nothing organized about her teaching, let alone "natural". A gifted horsewoman she may very well be, but a gifted teacher she is not. One got the sense she resents people for being new to this; if so, perhaps she should not offer her services to beginners? Just a thought. If you tried to ask a question, she shut you down, yelled at you for interrupting her. It almost felt like she was messing with us, but she seemed so unstable, erratic, annoyed, and impatient that we kind of didn't know what to do, so we just gritted our teeth, fake-smiled for the blurry photos she took --(she would not let us bring our phones, even secured in a fanny pack) -- and bore it. Jacklyn might very well be in possession of equine mastery - and may the horse gods bless her for taking care of those beautiful beasts -- but she has no people skills whatsoever, at least none that we could detect. We are relatively thick-skinned individuals, but she was so disagreeable and belligerent that there was no way we could enjoy this ride. We walked (never even got to a half-trot, probably because the horses were so old) around her property. Sometimes she'd point to something in the distance and then berate us for looking in the wrong direction. Did I mention the berating? Lots of that. I guess we paid a premium for the Extra Masochistic Horse Lesson. Or she'd point at a plant and say: That's yucca. Like we were just born into the world and have absolutely no idea wha
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February 2023 by Christine Glass
What an fantastic experience! Great instruction by the guide! I learned so much and enjoyed the process. I will definitely be going back! Loved having the dogs along for the ride.
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January 2023 by K Gehring
Not a great ride. We rode (walking only) around a back area with rusted out cars and limited views. Backpacks and selfie pictures not allowed. Be careful with children as the owner’s dogs will nip and bite.
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January 2023 by Mattie Foley
We had an amazing time going out on the trail with Jacklyn! The views and the horses were absolutely beautiful and Jacklyn was the perfect guide, especially for beginners. Highly recommend and will absolutely be back!
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January 2023 by Erin
As other reviewers have mentioned, Jacklyn will cancel your reservation without notifying you for no real reason. I called prior to my reservation to inquire about rain and was told all rides would be cancelled if it was raining. Luckily the forecast changed and it was not raining on the morning of my reservation, nor was it predicted to (and true to the forecast, it never did). I called a few times before arrival but no answer. After I arrived she finally called back saying that she cancelled our reservation and that she had told me this. But.....she NEVER contacted me to tell me this. Not a text, not a phone call, nothing. When I pointed this out and the fact that it wasn't raining, she added on the excuse she wasn't feeling well. Rude, inconsiderate, unprofessional. There are other horse ranches in the area, avoid this one.
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December 2022 by Waverly S.
We had such a great time with Jacklyn at Crazy Horse Ranch. We are beginners and Jacklyn taught us the ropes (literally). We learned about good horsemanship and how to respect and be in tune with your horse. Thanks Crazy Horse!
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June 2022 by MAEGAN FLENIKEN
Amazing and personal experience, best place to go for a trail ride!
