Welcome to McKenzie’s

 
 

McKenzie’s is home to a small, close-knit and  select group of serious competitive equestrians and horse lovers. Since 1975, Oklahoma Hunter-Jumper junior riders shooting for “indoors” have trained at McKenzie’s.

Our facility is nestled near the Tulsa suburb of Kiefer, Oklahoma, at 151st St. South & 49th West Avenue. Laureen McKenzie is the owner, manager, professional, trainer, teacher, coach and mentor. She is a USEF judge, show manager and course designer.  McKenzie’s occasionally has horses for sale. Please see our “for sale” page.

Laureen, a former nationally-recognized competitive junior rider herself, shares her years of experience and expertise with her select students. She is now a professional and competes in both the hunter and jumper ring. She is currently the USEF Zone 7 Equitation Chair and a member of the USEF National Equitation Committee. She is the only Oklahoma Hunter-Jumper trainer who has consistently trained junior riders for over 30 years to qualify for Indoors and the Maclay.

 

Welcome to McKenzie Stables

McKenzie’s

McKenzie’s home is nestled just off 151st Street just outside of Kiefer, OK (2 miles west of the Okmulgee Beeline/US Highway 75). It is Tulsa’s premiere equestrian facility offering boarding, training, sales and showing. At McKenzie’s you’ll find a classic equestrian facility with top-level training and where horses receive the highest level of care.


McKenzie’s offers indoor and outdoor arenas and our stalls are designed with your horse’s safety and best interest in mind -- featuring an attendant on-site 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

A watercolor rendition of McKenzie Stables’ Indoor Arena, where riders practice during uncooperative weather. The indoor arena is flanked by several turnouts. This turnout on the south side is home to McKenzie’s greeters Pete (a Shetland pony) and Guido (burro) among others.

McKenzie’s Stables large outdoor hunt course features a variety of challenging and colorful jumps and well-maintained footing. Also, there are many turnouts for horses to enjoy in a variety of places around the facility.

McKenzies is a story of reaching for and attaining dreams.


When she was only a first grader, Laureen began taking riding lessons from Dodie Miller at Millerwood Stables in Tulsa. It was then that she dreamed of becoming a famous rider and owning her own facility. At age 10, she took to the road with her grandpa, a three-horse trailer and a Winnebago and began showing and jumping
3’6”. Athletic success ran in her family -- her grandfather, Commander Alfred Brown, was a former olympic swimmer.


Laureen quickly became an extremely successful junior rider. Some of her more notable accomplishments -- although the names of the awards have changed, include:

        Champion Youth Quarter Horse Jumper and Hunter  (x3)

        World Championship Quarter Horse Hunter (x5)

        Open Jumper Challenge

        “The Gold” at the 1976 Olympic Games in Colorado Springs


Most of her show circuit expenses back then were funded by horse sales and training and also by the riding lesson income. While still a high school student, her “business” had accrued abou
t 14 riders and horses. She focused on horses and made a major commitment: Laureen McKenzie turned pro at the ripe old age of 17.


Instead of going directly to college after she graduated from Booker T. Washington High School, she focused on promoting and growing her business. She discovered the land that is now McKenzie Stables is currently located.


Since then, Laureen has continued to compete and offered her expertise to hundreds of riders from the Oklahoma area -- although never actively pursuing clients. She is the only active trainer in Oklahoma who has coached students in the highest levels of the USEF’s Hunter Jumper Discipline -- Indoors and Maclay. Students of all ages come from other states for training with Laureen; Kansas City, St. Louis and Dallas riders have all “trailered in” to the McKenzie facility for lessons.

 

About Laureen McKenzie...

McKenzie’s

Offers Horses the Absolute Best Care Available


  1. • Safe, secure stalls

  2. • Seven-day, twice daily turnouts

  3. • Stalls mucked multiple times daily

  4. • Turnout paddocks

  5. • Heated/Air conditioned boarder
      lounge.

  6. • Large tack room

  7. • Insect control

  8. • Individually designed,   customized feed program

  9. • Specialized & personalized daily turnout regimen

  10. • Highest level of Hunter/Jumper training available in Oklahoma