Espinoza Horsemanship

Isidro and Amber are a husband and wife team whose primary focus is training wild horses, colt starting and rehabbing “problem” horses. They both were blessed to grow up with horses. Isidro grew up on a large ranch in Durango, Mexico with generations of horsemen and ranchers to learn from. Amber grew up in Southern California with horses in the back yard and a part of the family. Amber focused primarily on hunter/jumpers and dressage working with Grand Prix rider Gail Gilmore and learning from clinics with George Morris and Susie Hutchinson. She developed a fun group of hunter/jumper students that showed all over the Southern California Hunter/Jumper circuit. She also retrained OTTBs and sold them and obtained an Equine Science specialist certificate from Victor Valley College in CA. Isidro and Amber met in 2005 at Winbak Farm in Chesapeake City, MD. Isidro had been working there for many years and was well known as the guy who could train and handle the most difficult horse. Winbak Farm is the second largest breeding horse farm in North America. They breed, train and race Standardbreds. Isidro and Amber worked together in the foaling barns on the night shift delivering hundreds of foals. A foaling season could see upwards of 400 foals a year. When foaling season ended, Isidro would help bring in and break the yearlings for the sales. Amber transitioned to become the Office Manager at the farm and assisted the Breeding Manager with keeping track of when the mares were ovulating and learning to Artificially Inseminate mares. They both learned how to run a farm with over 1,500 horses. In 2009, Amber graduated nursing school and became a full-time Registered Nurse in Maternal Health. She adopted her first mustang in 2009 to see if she could train a wild horse, a lifelong dream. That is when the passion to help wild horses was born. That particular mustang she kept until his death in 2022 and he changed her life forever. Isidro was working at a dairy farm and kept having people asking him to trim and shoe their difficult horses. He developed a huge client base of people who had horses no other farrier would touch. This led to people asking him to start their horses under saddle and by word of mouth he started training full-time. In 2015 Isidro signed up to become a TIP Trainer with The Mustang Heritage Foundation and started gentling mustangs. In 2016 Amber signed up to compete in her first Extreme Mustang Makeover that was held in Fort Worth, TX.