This is the place to get the BEST training for learning to ride, and not only learning to ride but…read morehave an excellent approach to correctly riding horses. Our daughter is 9 and has been loving and learning from her trainer. Kathy and Michelle are professional trainers and know how to handle any stage of a riders development. I highly recommend this place. The property is beautiful and very clean.

I absolutely love this place. I grew up around horses and my family still has a ranch in Wisconsin…read morebut I don't get to spend enough time there. The owner Michelle is very knowledgeable about all aspects of training horses, riding lessons and just how to show a group a good time on a sunset ride. I want to book a private ride with friends soon. I highly recommend this Desert Palms Equestrian to get away from the city and experience the peaceful surroundings.

This is a really great barn. My horse is so happy since she got here. I have checked out many barns…read morein the area and have not been too impressed. They are usually very pricey for not good service. What I like about this place: The stalls are really nice. Everyone has their own locker. I have my horse in a barn with a covered walk out. She loves it. It is usually about 15-20 degrees cooler in that barn. I like the multiple grass turnouts. It lets the horses be a horse for a little while. They also many large dirt paddocks. All night turn out is offered for those horses who do not have a walk out which is really great. The atmosphere is laid back and they are really accommodating. Overall a great place.

I ride here with Alice Sarno, and I can't say enough about this place! Well kept and clean. The…read morehorses are all happy and the facilities are fantastic! There's an exercise track, a jumping arena, a cross country course with multiple jumps, and two dressage arenas. Love this place!

Greggory and Frisco Farms provide an excellent foundation for new riders and can help a more…read moreexperienced rider really grow. He has safe and sound lesson horses but worked with me and my horse as well. The facilites are fantastic. I learned everything from bareback equitation to lower level dressage to trail obstacles. He even went out on trail rides to help solve some problems I had there. Five stars all the way!

My ten-year-old daughter has been taking lessons here for 8 months, and we are thrilled we found…read moreFrisco Farms and Greggory! She had never ridden before when she started, and it is amazing how much he has taught her in a few months. He recently took her to a horse show and she was so well-prepared that she won first and second place in several events. I love that he is very easygoing and great with kids, but at the same time manages to teach them a lot of technical skills that make them better riders. There is a strong emphasis on safety and he focuses not only on riding, but on horse care in general. My daughter has learned so much - she feels challenged and loves every minute that she spends at the barn and in lessons. As a parent, I feel confident that she is safe and in good hands. Without a doubt, I would recommend Frisco Farms to anyone looking for riding lessons.

This is absolutely the best place if you want your horses to be cared for by true horse men and…read morewomen. Also a great place for children to learn basics up to the Grand Prix. They also have a great kids camp I cannot say enough good things about the people and the facility. Hard to find honest hard-working trainers and horse people these days. I have known the family for 30 years and will start my girls riding there next year when they turn five. I may start them in the summer camp this summer because I think it's so great when they meet friends through Horses. We have horses at home but it's nice to have the barn atmosphere and the friendships that goes with it. This is the place for your horse or your child if you truly want quality and kindness.

My fiance & I got Groupons for 3 horse riding lessons at Twisted Tree Farm. The stables themselves…read moreare very pretty and set into a calm area of North Scottsdale with views of Pinnacle Peak. It'd be a really cute place to take engagement or family pictures, if they let you. Twisted Tree Farm caters to real riders, like the kind that do jumps and that sort of competition. We didn't quite realize that when we got the groupons...my fiance trying to post and such was a funny site. We just wanted to learn how to ride horses and get to run with them cause trail guides on the hour rides in the desert never let you. Our instructor Victoria was really nice, knowledgeable, and patient. She let me go slowly (those horses are giant) and made sure I felt comfortable with everything. Twisted Tree Farms seems like a great place to go if you want to learn english-style, jump-style horse riding. If you are just looking for regular horse riding lessons like we were, someplace else would probably be better.

I went to their summer camp and though they have a great riding experience, they cram too many kids…read moreon one horse. They only have two riding horses for like 30 kids so while two kids ride, 28 kids stand out in the sun waiting for hours for their turn. And they only let a kid ride once. Other than that and their lack of a cool place to stay, it is a fun riding place.

My daughters and I have done horseback riding 4-5 times in Arizona and always tried a new place…read moreeach year. Trailhead ranch was hands down my favorite. For an extra $60 we were able to make the ride private which was completely worth it. The horses were well trained, better than other ranches, the trail as a bit more advanced, we went up a ledge and through cave creek (which was dry), and Russ and stormy were phenomenal guides. Location was also very easy to find. This will absolutely be our go to place in the future.

Went on a ride with Russ today. I highly recommend this ride while in the area. He was very kind…read moreand knowledgeable. Great horses!

I've boarded here for many years and continue to be impressed by the impeccable care of the horses!!read more

I will start by saying that we stumbled upon Hailey's while looking for a facility to take couple's…read morelessons in Western riding. Since they confirmed this was an option, we went ahead and booked a meet and greet to check it out and get the tour, which I thought was a great thing to offer prospective clients. First impressions, the facility was clean, well kept, well stocked, organized and all the horses we saw were healthy, happy and well mannered. These folks clearly care about the animals and have deep bonds with them, something which was evident not only in the animals and their surroundings but also how the staff interacted with them. Everyone we met was respectful and friendly, both to each other and to us, so that was nice to see. While on the topic of first impressions, there are a few things that could have been better and which, in concert, stopped us from returning after the tour. For one thing, we never actually got to meet Hailey, due to some kind of scheduling goof at her end. No disrespect to James, he did a fantastic job in her place, but it was very awkward to show up expecting Hailey and having no clue what was going on until James stumbled upon us, figured out we were Hailey's prospects and introduced himself. It may not be a big deal to some folks, but this is one of my pet peeves. If I'm looking to spend THOUSANDS with your barn and you can't be bothered to even be present for the meet and greet, then intentionally or not, you convey to me that I'm not worth your time. This goes doubly when your absence is a total surprise. If I'm not worth your time, not even an email or text to let me know James is filling in, what does that tell me as a client? Call that the first strike and the first dropped star. Another thing which was compounded by Hailey's absence was that we didn't really get a sense for whether couple's Western lessons were really a thing at this barn or not. I saw virtually no Western tack and there was lots of commentary from James that what they mean by "couple's lesson" is that you will pay for two trainers to work with you simultaneously, in separate parts of the facility. To me this is NOT a couple's lesson, it's just two people taking lessons apart from each other at 2x full price. Additionally, we couldn't get clear answers on taking specifically Western lessons. I was told that whether we would ride/learn Western or English would depend first on the tack that was best for the horse and that we'd use a mix of English and Western tack depending on what we were learning that day. I also was told that James is primarily a Western trainer while Hailey's background is English. I had a hard time understanding how we'd be doing couple's Western lessons if there's one Western trainer and one English trainer and sometimes one of us would be learning English riding in an English saddle with an English trainer. Again, that is NOT a couple's Western lesson, it sounds like two people taking lessons in different disciplines, apart from each other at 2x full price. Call this the second strike and second dropped star. After the tour and subsequent follow-up emails, we reluctantly decided to look elsewhere for our lessons. To be clear, it was never about the money, it was about spending time and learning together as a couple. It just didn't seem like that was an option here. When a barn has a fundamental misunderstanding of what clients are looking for in a "couple's lesson", they probably shouldn't offer them in the first place. Anyone that spends any amount of time working with horses will quickly learn that behavior is a language. Unfortunately, as seems to be the case here, some trainers don't appreciate that their own behavior is a language, let alone what it's saying to their clients. I have said before and will repeat it here: riding instruction is a people business, NOT a horse business. You will be more successful and attract more customers if you act like you understand the difference. Bottom line: I think this might be a good place for individuals looking for English or maybe inter-disciplinary/mixed riding lessons, but if you're looking for couple's lessons, or specifically Western instruction, neither seems to be offered here and you'd be better served elsewhere.

We started lessons here at Hailey's Horsemanship with James. Our first impression: the facilities…read moreare clean, the horses are happy and well cared for, and both James and Hailey are very welcoming as well as knowledgeable. I would recommend this place to anybody who is considering lessons for their kids or themselves!