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!