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Hope Hobday Glynn rode as a junior in Northern California under the tutelage of her mother Pricilla Hobday and Patty Ball. 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.
Hope has been a consistent winner in the hunter ring throughout California for the past 10 years. She has been rider of the year for horseshowtime.com in both 2007 and 2009. She has been the leading open hunter rider in Northern California for 6 years in a row as well as training over 50 year end champions for pony, children’s, and junior hunters for PCHA, NorCal and Zone 10 in just the last 5 years. Please see link to Hopes previous Biography for highlights up to 2010. She has also been a licensed judge for 11 years and sits on both the CPHA Professional Board as well as the USHJA Young Professionals Committee. Twice Hope has won the handler award at the Sallie B. Wheeler West Coast Finals and she enjoys handling young hunters on the line. She has been happily married for 11 years and has one great daughter Avery Rose Glynn who is in Kindergarten and rides her pony “Wally” in the walk trot.
2010 has been a banner year for SVS. Hope started the year by riding and training 8 mid circuit champions at Thermal Desert Circuit then coming back to Northern California and has been the leading first year horse Roccoco, the leading second year horse Woodstock, the leading Regular Working Hunter Chance of Flurries, and the leading pre-green horse Stonetown. She also received the Patrick Rostrom Regular Working High Score Award at Menlo this year. Hope was also the 2010 CWD High Score Professional Hunter Rider. Hope and her clients horses have been featured in articles in Chronicle of the horse, Showbiz, Sidelines, Riding, and currently working on a training article for Practical Horseman. Equestrian Life features training videos on Hope as well.
In 2010 Hope’s Professional Highlights Include:
Desert Circuit 2 USHJA/Chronicle of the horse $10,000 Derby (3 in the top ten, Weatherly, Kasimir and Play Through)
March- $5000 Brookside Premier Hunter Derby (1st Podium, 2nd Stonetown, 3rd Woodstock)
April Woodside USHJA Derby(1st Woodstock, 2nd Swingtime, 3rd Chance Of Flurries)
May Woodside USHJA Derby(1st Swingtime, 2nd Chance of Flurries)
May Golden State Hunter Derby( 1st Woodstock, 2nd Rienzo, 3rd Chance of Flurries)
June Pickwick Hunter Derby (1st Winter-Eleanor Hellman up)
July Woodside USHJA Hunter Derby (1st Swingtime)
August $10,000 Sonoma Horse Park Hunter Derby (1st Woodstock, 2nd Chance Of Flurries)
September $25,000 Franktown Meadows USHJA/Chronicle of the horse Derby(John French and Jenny Karassizis catch riding) 1st-Roccoco 5th Winter 6th SVS Caramunde Z and 7th Woodstock
October Norcal Medal Finals HunterClassic (1st Roccoco, 2nd Stonetown, 3rd Woodstock) Norcal $1000 Pre-green Classic (1st Stonetown)
Other Special Wins Include: Champion Regular Working Hunter at Menlo on Chance of Flurries; Woodstock and Olivia Hellman Champion $10,000 Circle Oak Adult Hunter Classic; Sarah Frushell and Stonetown High Score Hunter-champion Children’s hunter at Menlo Charity. Swingtime-Avery Hellman, Weatherly-Erin Bland, Chance of Flurries-Helen McEvoy and Rienzo-Sarah Draxton all won Junior Hunter Classics at the Oaks, Sonoma Horse Park, Northern Winter Classics and Thermal. Olivia Hellman and Swingtime won the $1000 A/A hunter classic at Thermal as well as being mid-circuit A/A champion on Woodstock at Thermal. Sarah Ryan and Isabelle Olson both won pony hunter $1000 classics at Sonoma Horse Park this summer. Jill Olson, Ilene Zauderer, Andi Oneto, and Olivia Hellman all picked up wins in the $2000 Circle Oak Hunter Classics; SVS swept the series. Sarah Draxton on Rienzo and High Resolution as well as Sarah Frushell and Stonetown have combined to win 8 children’s hunter classics this year. Sarah Hellman and Burberry won the Equestrian Connect Low A/O hunter Classic and were tied for Champion Low A/O at Menlo Charity. Madison Bradshaw won the Pickwick Finals, NorCal Junior Finals and Ariat Monaco Equitation Classic. Lucy Sogard was second in the Hudson and Company Finals. –And still more to come!

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Ned Glynn rode as a junior rider with Gry and Duncan McFarlane. After graduating from UC Davis where he coached the equestrian team, he traveled east and rode with Candice King. As a junior he placed in the top four in the following medal finals: USET Talent Search, NorCal, WCE, and CPHA as well as winning the F. B. Hart Good Hands and Seat Finals two years in a row. He has ridden to wins in both Jimmy Williams Futures classes and National Standard Grand Prixs. He worked with Linda Allen as an assistant course designer at the Atlanta Olympics and the World Cup Finals in Sweden. Recently Ned's students and horses have won championships, classics, and medal finals in all rings. Highlights include helping to train and coach the top two finishers in the 2010 Pickwick medal finals as well as winners at this years Spruce Meadows Skyliner Tournament. Trained the winner of the 2010 Norcal Junior Medal. 2010 was also a special year for Ned as two students who started riding at SVS in the short stirrup division competed and placed in their first national standard grand prix. In 2011, Ned trained the mid-circuit champion thermal Low Junior jumpers, as well as was chef d'equipe of the norcal 1.40 team in spruce meadows. Madison Bradshaw who has ridden with SVS since she was a short stirrup rider qualified and will compete in the NAYRC Young Riders in Kentucky for Zone 10. Ned is also an elected member of the Zone 10 USEF jumper committee.

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Amber Levine turned professional in the spring of 2007 after a successful junior career. She was third in the junior hunter championships under the direction of Susan Hutchison. She traveled to the east coast medals finals for her three final junior years. She was fourth in USET Talent Search 2006, where her horse Ketel One was named Best Horse. In 2005, she was PCHA champion in the Low Junior Jumpers. In 2006 reserve champion in the High Junior Jumpers and also was Leading Junior Jumper Rider for the west coast Show Jumping Hall of Fame on Anna Karenina. In 2007 Amber qualified both of her jumpers, Ketel One and Anna Karenina, for the NAYRC team and stepped up to the Grand Prix level. Amber hopes to continue her success in the professional ranks.

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Tracy Mirabelli is our barn manager and assistant trainer. She was born and educated in England and has worked in hunter jumper barns in Northern California for 13 years. Tracy has ridden for and taught at SVS since 2002 and has been an integral part of our clients' success in the show ring.
Tracy teaches with a strong emphasis on equitation, performance and compassion for the horse. When Ned and Hope are away at shows, Tracy stays at home running the facility, maintaining an individualized program for each horse, and the "at home" lesson schedule.

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Heather grew up in Southern California and rode as a junior in the Hunters and Equitation. She spent some time riding as a working student allowing her to catch ride many types of young and sometimes difficult horses. She also spent time working with a dressage trainer learning a new discipline and strengthening her flatwork.

Heather’s professional career started at Middle Ranch working for Lisa Stroway at Freeway Farms riding and teaching. She also had the opportunity to become involved with Meadow Grove Farms as one of their riders. In early 2006, Heather went to work as the assistant for Grand Prix rider Susan Artes. While Susie’s grand prix horses took her to shows outside the barn’s regular schedule, and sometimes internationally, Heather took clients on the road to shows, organized schedules and sales, along with maintaining a successful program of riding and teaching. From the Hunter ring to the Grand Prix field, she has worked with the novice amateur to the successful junior equitation and jumper rider. She has also worked with and along side Judy Martin and has cliniced with George Morris.