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.
Lanny and his wife, Kathy, owned a country gift and flower shop from 1992 to 2003. They also sold handcrafted oak furniture wholesale in 15 states. This helped to supplement the income from cattle work and horse training to send their two children to college.
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.
The Stables has approximately 65 boarded horses. In his training business he conducts horsemanship clinics, starts colts and trains horses for clients in Tucson, Pima County, Phoenix and outer-lying regions.
Lanny trains and starts all breeds of horses to include draft horses, Quarter Horses, Morgans, Foxtrotters, Saddlebreads, warm bloods, Arabs, Halflingers, Thoroughbreds, National show horses, PMU rescue horses, and Mustangs both wild and adopted. He rides 8 horses a day either on property or at his client's facility. 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.
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.