Family,  Riding

About


Armstrong Equine Service is a family owned & operated horse farm. We provide quality equine services ranging from horse breeding, experienced horse trainers and quality Quarter horses for sale. Joe and Rusty manage the farm while son Josh trains and shows horses & holds event-specific training. Daughter Criss and husband Monty Grubbs live in Lubbock, TX, where she is a Field Account Executive for Renaissance Learning.



Commitment to Quality

As a whole, the family is interested in almost every aspect of the horse. Joe’s primary interest stems from quality performance breeding, ranching, and back country horse packing; Rusty’s hobby is riding for pleasure and ranch work; Josh’s training program offers horse breaking, horse training, and horse showing, as well as event-specific training, private riding instruction, and clinics: domestic and abroad.; Criss is a former all-around horse show winner; and Ed enjoys skiing, para gliding and ski riding.

Josh and his wife Linda are the parents of Rusty and Joe’s four grandchildren: Joe III, Georgia Criss, Edward Jeronimo and Peter Russ all follow in Josh’s footsteps.


Dr. Joe B Armstrong

Octogenarian, Cattleman, Horseman, PhD, Educator & author

Joe received a Ph.D. in Animal Breeding from Colorado State University. He has recently retired as Professor and Horse Extension Specialist from New Mexico State University. Joe is an AQHA judge, enjoys horse packing, and has over forty years of experience in private farm management. He has aided and taught horse production techniques around the world in Russia, Europe, Cuba, Japan, North and South America.


Rusty Armstrong

National Marketing Director with Juice Plus

Rusty is the Office Manager at AES. She met Joe at Colorado State where she received a degree in Animal Science. As a youth she successfully competed in jumping, but today enjoys riding for pleasure. Rusty is a National Marketing Director with Juice Plus. In La Mesa, she is involved with the local Rotary Chapter in Anthony, New Mexico. Juice Plus
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Josh Armstrong

Top 10 Finisher at both the NRHA and Congress Reining Futurities, and a European National Champion Reiner.

Josh’s training program offers horse breaking and horse training, and horse showing, as well as event-specific training, private riding instruction, and clinics: domestic and abroad. Josh has moved his training operation to Landmark Mercantile in Mesquite, NM (just 5 miles up the road). Providing his exceptional training, lessons, showing and other services. He has some super prospects for sale. Contact Josh at 575.312.2291 or you can see him on facebook or his web page.


Ed Armstrong

An avid skier and whitewater enthusiast, his love of mountains led him to pioneer the sport of speed flying in the U.S.

Joe’s younger son, Ed, has the same talent but pursues other exciting sports. Ed was an excellent roper, winning the average in team roping for NMSU at the 1998 NIRA Grand Canyon Regional Finals rodeo, and was his Dad’s right hand man on the NMSU Wilderness horse pack trips. But he excelled on the snow! An avid skier and whitewater enthusiast, his love of mountains led him to pioneer the sport of speed flying in the U.S. – simultaneously skiing and flying off the peaks throughout the Rocky Mountains. He continues to enjoy flying and holds a cross-country distance record in the sport of paragliding.


Criss Lynn Grubbs

Field Account Executive for Renaissance Learning

Joe’s daughter, Criss Lynn Grubbs, followed her Dad into education and was an excellent school teacher and administrator. She was active with horses as a youth in 4-H, assisting at horse schools, horse shows and on pack trips. Like her Dad, she had a talent for basketball, playing college ball on an athletic scholarship. She received a Master’s degree in Education and is retired from the Las Cruces Public School system. She and her husband, Monty, live in
Lubbock, TX, where she is a Field Account Executive for Renaissance Learning.