Hope Hobday Glynn rode as a junior in Northern California under the tutelage of her mother Pricilla Hobday and Patty Ball. She also rode in clinics with George Morris and Karen Healey. She competed primarily in the hunters and equitation as a junior rider.
Winner of all the northern California medal finals as well as numerous year-end hunter championships, Hope chose to become a professional after graduating from UC Davis. In 2007 she was horseshowtime.com "Rider of the Year" where points are accumulated at all horse shows and divisions in the United States. She has been the leading California hunter rider in both 2005 and 2006. Her professional highlights also include winner of the 2005, 2006, & 2007 Norcal Hunter Classic, winner of the 2005 and 2007 Golden State Hunter Classic, 2007 Trainer Equitation Champion Let's Show, numerous open hunter championships for year end NorCal, PCHA, and Zone 10. Hope was the handler and trainer of the 2007 USEF Sallie B. Wheeler Best Young Horse C'Czar owned by Helen McEvoy. Hope has been a licensed USEF judge in hunters and hunter seat equitation since 1997.