Trainers

Trainers and Clinicians

Partnering with Professional Clinicians:
The Mustangs of America Foundation is partnering with professional trainers/clinicians to provide adopters with training information and resources. The intent is to provide adopters with sound advice and training practices. Our goal is for adoptions to be successful and safe for both the adopters and mustangs. We also promote the mustang as a great contributor in the equine world.
Be sure to visit with them when they attend events and clinics. Many thanks for all your support with the Mustangs of America Foundation!

Richard Winters Horsemanship

Horseman, Clinician and 2009 Road To The Horse winner Richard Winters has been helping people through training, clinics, horse expos and horse training DVD’s and videos for twenty years. Richard is a performance horse trainer with a natural horsemanship touch. He was the Horsemanship Instructor at the Thacher School in Ojai, California and has contributed articles to Equine, Western Horse, Performance Horse and Cascade Horseman's magazines. He’s had radio interviews on The Radio Weekly with Jim Campbell and The Horse Show with Rick Lamb. In 2007 Richard worked with Li’l Gal at an expo demo getting her first ride. He now resides in the Reno, Nevada area.
Richard Winters
www.wintersranch.com
(805) 640-0956

Lanny Leach Horsemanship

Lanny Leach's great grandfather, grandfather and father homesteaded and managed cattle ranches in the Sandhills of Nebraska. He started riding when he was 2, broke his first horse when he was 12 and owned and managed his own cattle ranch in his early 20's. In High School he was a 4-H member, an FFA member and was on the FFA Horse Judging and Demonstration team when his team won the State championship. He competed in high school rodeo and qualified for the National Finals Rodeo in 1973 and was a five-time winner of All Around Cowboy. From 1976 to 1992 he worked cattle on his own ranch or did custom cattle work. He started and trained horses for cattle work and for hay wagon team work. Ranches Lanny worked or managed ranged from 2,800 acres to 20,000 acres. This included taking care of his own ranch and managing other ranches. When Lanny and Kathy moved to Arizona in 2003, Lanny worked as a horse trainer and wrangler at the Tanque Verde Guest Ranch, the Manor Farms and the Amado Ranch before managing the Tanque Verde Stables and running his training business from there in 2005. Lanny conducts horsemanship clinics, starts colts and trains horses for clients. Lanny trains and starts all breeds of horses including wild and gentled mustangs. He does community service in the form of conducting seminars for University of Arizona veterinarian students demonstrating how to handle a horse while administering medical care. He competes in events such as Craig Cameron's Extreme Cowboy Race and the Extreme Mustang Makeover sponsored by the Mustang Heritage Foundation and the Bureau of Land Management. Lanny is now located in Nebraska. Call for lessons, personal training and clinics.
Call Lanny at 520-591-2494
email Kathy at kjleach2004@yahoo.com
website:lannyleachhorsemanship.com

Logan Leach

Logan grew up on a cattle ranch in the sand hills of Nebraska. His best memories as a young child are sorting cattle on the family ranch and roping calves for brandings. Throughout his childhood, Logan was an active member in 4-H horseshows and junior rodeo. While working with his dad, Logan learned from a young age the importance of a good work ethic, and more importantly a well broke horse. Riding an assortment of horses, Logan also learned the importance of practice when increasing your knowledge of how horses learn and react. Logan continued to stay active with horses through his youth, but it wasn’t until he transferred from Mid-America Nazarene College in Kansas City, Kansas, to Grand Canyon University in Glendale, Arizona, that he started to gain an interest in training horses with his dad. Logan, when not doing school activities, would travel to Tucson and ride horses for his dad, learning the skills to become a horse trainer. After graduating college with a Business Administration Degree, Logan then was accepted to go to the United States Border Patrol Academy in Artesia, New Mexico. While becoming and being a Border Patrol Agent, Logan always thought of what it would be like to work full time with his dad. After nine months serving with the Border Patrol, Logan accepted the opportunity to work full-time alongside his dad being a horse trainer. Logan truly feels blessed he’s able to share such a strong bond with his dad through the training of the horse. Logan is located in Nebraska.
Contact: 402-760-0344

Joseph P. Misner was the 2014 Champion of the Extreme Mustang Makeover, Norco competition. Joe has competed in 13 Extreme Mustang Makeovers, which include the Special invitational Mustang Magic top ten trainer’s competitions, 4 times. He has placed in the top ten, 9 out of 13 mustang makeovers. Joe has been a T.I.P. trainer for the Mustang Heritage Foundation for the past 8 years, helping mustangs find forever homes. He has been training B.L.M. mustangs for over a decade, and has owned, trained ,and shown several breeds of horses for over 30 years. Joe is dedicated to helping America’s wild horses and horse owners achieve their highest potential by using natural horsemanship techniques and learning leadership! He believes we can make a difference one mustang at a time!
Joe is currently the Training Manager at the Sacramento County, Rio Consumes Correctional Center helping inmates and wild mustangs start new lives.
Joe Misner
90 Lyles Lane
Lincoln, CA 95648
254-386-2640

Matt Sheridan

Matt has a diverse background in training horses for team penning, riding cutting and roping horses. He is experienced in training ranch and wild horses in Nevada. Matt has developed his own unique approach to horses and people. He worked with Mojave a rescue horse in 2006 at a wild horse expo and helped our volunteer trainers get their horses ready for the adoption/auction.

Matt Sheridan
24195 Quail Valley Road
Tehachapi, CA 93561
www.mattsheridan.net
(661) 822-4911