Bill Riddle has been a professional cutting horse trainer since 1977. In that time, horses he has trained and shown have won in excess of $4.5 million plus in the cutting show arena. His customers have won an additional $3.9 million plus. Bill was a history teacher for ten years prior to becoming a professional cutting horse trainer. That teaching experience has allowed him to be one of the industry’s premier instructors.

Bills’ clinics have been well attended since the first one in 1984. He has conducted clinics in Texas, New Mexico, California, Idaho, Ohio, Oregon, Oklahoma (Private Clinics Ranch), Canada, France, Brazil, and Australia. Highly respected by his peers, Bill has served the National Cutting Horse Association at every level. He has been an area director and chaired both the Limited Aged Committee and the Sales Committee. He has served as Vice President of the NCHA two times and as President for the 2007 term. Bill wrote the original Casebook used by the NCHA Judges Department to train judges.

As a proven Professional Horse Trainer in several disciplines, Jody Galyean hauled for his first Western Pleasure World Championship in 1975. He won World Champion Western Pleasure Stallion and continued into the 19080’s as the top rider of pleasure horses. The skills Jody hones from the Western Pleasure came in handy as he paved his own path as a cutting horse trainer.

Jody has amassed a plethora of titles to his name over the years including the NSBA Hall of Fame, the NCHA Open Riders Hall of Fame, the 1986 NCHA Open Futurity Championship, the 1996 Open Classic/Challenge Championship aboard Merada Missy, the 1997 NCHA Super Stakes Open Gelding Championship aboard KG Tamu Hickory, and he is a two-time Augusta Futurity Classic winner aboard Sunetta Playgirl and Playgun. Carrying on his legacy, Jody is the father to NCHA Open Riders Hall of Fame trainers, Beau and Wesley Galyean and NCHA Non-Pro Hall of Fame rider, Christina Cox.