Trainers

Trainers and 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 of the Mustangs of America Foundation!

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 at the Medella Vina Ranch in Tuscon, Arizona. Call for lessons, personal training and clinics.
Call Lanny at 520-591-2494
Email Kathy at kjleach2004@yahoo.com
Website:lannyleachhorsemanship.com

Randy Helm Randy was born into a ranching family in a remote area of central Arizona and has been working with horses for most of his life. After graduating from his high school in Jerome, Arizona in 1972, Randy became a member of the US Air Force and served until 1976.
In 2012, Randy was hired to develop and supervise the Wild Horse Inmate Program for Arizona State Prison. The program focused not only on training horses, but training people and the parallels between the horse and the inmate. The Wild Horse Inmate Program has attained national and international attention in news stories, magazines and documentaries.
Currently, Randy lives in Coolidge, Arizona, with his beautiful wife Libby. Randy and Libby have 5 adult children, three dogs, and three horses. He is an instrument rated pilot, avid hunter, fisherman, and an outdoors man.
Serving as a pastor and police chaplain, Randy has a passion for drawing the parallels between people, horses and Biblical principles. Randy has conducted numerous cowboy churches inside the prison, as well as rodeo events and country western concerts. Randy also conducts clinics, demonstrations and expos as part of his outreach ministry. He has conducted clinics and cowboy church for Country Thunder music festivals in Arizona, Texas, and Canada.
Randy Helm: (602) 448-5019

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 horse shows 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.
Contact: 402-760-0344