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 younger son Ed is the Assistant Manager and 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.
Joe and Rusty 
Ed 
Josh and Daughter Georgia 
Josh 
Criss and Monty 
Joe III, Josh’s oldest Son 
Josh and Linda’s son Eddie 
Josh & Linda w/ youngest Son Peter
(Courtesy of Spirit & Nature Productions)
Georgia, Josh and Linda’s Daughter
(Courtesy of Spirit & Nature Productions)
Eddie w/ saddle he made for County 4-H 
Georgia Pole Racing 
Ed and Josh
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 as Assistant Manager managing most of the labor on the farm also 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
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 was 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. He is the author of Horseman’s Handbook, Horse Ownership, Care & Enjoyment. Pick up your copy of Horsman’s Hankbook here.
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 International 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
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. 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
Joe’s younger son, Ed, is Assistant Manager on the farm has the same talent and also pursues other exciting sports. Ed is 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
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.
