Meet Our Ambassadors
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Trainer & Champion Profile: Naike Bell
Naike Bell has spent over 3 decades riding horses and pursing her love of the sport, at first riding English when she was just 6 years old. Today, with impressive World & Champion titles under her belt (and on her belt buckles!), she trains with her husband at Brian Bell Performance Horses, starting 2 year olds and molding them into reining champions, specializing in Open and Non Pro training and sales. She’s dedicated to elevating the sport and putting the horse first. And we’re proud she always does it in Ride Southerly show shirts.
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Trainer Profile: Dee Dee Barrie of Dee Dee's All Around Horses
Growing up on a ranch in Idaho made Dee Dee’s life choice to train horses seem inevitable. But it takes more than a childhood among horses to become a celebrated trainer of western all around horses and actually make a living doing it. Now based in Poolesville, Maryland, Dee Dee trains with patience and fairness, molding champion show horses that are happy, relaxed and successful all around performance horses for their owners.
Dee Dee favors designs and colors that compliment a variety of horse colors as she shows her client's horses. She likes embellishments that enhance, rather than detract from her quiet riding style.
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Champion Profile: Kyra Graycheck
A lifelong passion for horses drives Kyra Graycheck to continually improve her horsemanship. As the mother of a young daughter and the wife of trainer, Stephen Graycheck of Graycheck Performance Horses, she knows firsthand how to pitch in no matter what the day brings.
It’s that attitude and grit that helped make her a World Champion in the ARHA Amateur Working Ranch Horse class two years ago, while she was pregnant with their first child. Throughout her lifetime, she has shown western pleasure, ranch, and reining horses, appreciating the skills of the horse and honing the skills to ride each individual horse well.
Kyra favors designs that have impact without detracting from her ride. Unembellished for ranch classes and black on black when she rides reiners.