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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 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.

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Ned Glynn rode as a junior with Gry and Duncan McFarlane in California. After graduating from UCDavis and coaching their equestrian team he traveled to the east coast and rode with Candice King. As a junior he finished in the top four of all the major junior medal finals in California including USET Talent Search, NorCal, WCE, and CPHA. He also won the Jimmy Williams Futures Class and the Oregon High Desert Grand Prix as a junior. He worked as assistant course designer for the Atlanta Olympics, Mexico City Selection Trials, and Canadian Team Championships with Linda Allen. He has continued to ride to the top of the Norcal Leading Jumper Standings as well as bring young jumpers along. His specialty in the jumpers has been preparing the top Junior and Children's jumpers in California. In 2005 and 2006 Ned rode and trained the top year end Children's and Modified jumpers for both Zone 10 and Norcal. He is currently campaigning two up and coming grand prix prospects SVS Caramunde Z and Golden Ticket.

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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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Jill was born and raised in Northern California. She began riding at the age of eight and won every major West Coast title for pony riders. She moved off her ponies and began to concentrate on her love for equitation and jumpers under the tutelage of Karen Healey. She rode internationally as a junior. She was the USEF National Junior Equestrian of the Year in 1998. In the jumper ring she was the 1998 USEF National Jumper Rider of the Year and her horse Freestylin was the USEF Junior Jumper horse of the year. She also won the Cosequin National Junior Amateur Jumper of the Year for 1998. In both 1994 and 1997 she was the AGPL Horse/Rider of the Year. Jill won both individual and team medals as a member of the Harrisburg Prix de States Team in 1997 and 1998. She was also a member of the 1998 Young Rider Team sent to Monterrey, Mexico. While competing in Canada Jill was presented with the President’s Imperial Oil Cup Award for the Leading Jr. Rider at Spruce Meadows. While riding equitation she won the PHA Finals, Maclay Regional Finals, and the Del Mar Professional v Junior Eq.Challenge. In 1998 she was Reserve Champion in the USEF National Hunt Seat Medal Finals, WCE Horsemanship finals and the USET Talent Search Finals. She also made top ten finishes in the National Maclay and WIHS Finals. After her junior career she rode for Olympian and World Cup rider Jan Tops in the Netherlands and returned to the states to work and ride for Paul Valliere in Florida. Jill’s talent on the back of a horse and her love for teaching make her a welcome addition to the SVS team. She hopes her experience internationally will help further the goals and aspirations of many of the young riders at the barn.