Gloria Knight
Jumper / Dressage / Hunter / Equitation / Trainer-Coach / Equestrian Stuntwoman / SAG Actress
2006 to present Jumping Master / Head Trainer Jumping Division, Old Stone Farm, New York
2006 Four Months Training, Showing and riding for
Holsteiner Show Jumper Farm, Germany
2006 Trainer of "HECTOR", Val Kilmers Cast Horse for film Commanche
Moon
2006 Riding Trainer/ Coach for Actress Rachel Griffiths for film Commanche
Moon
2006 Film Wanted
Dead or Alive stunt double
2006 Free lance Show rider and stunt rider in both
Hunters and Jumpers
2005 2006 Film
The Flock, equestrian stunt double and riding coach for Actress Christana Cisco
2005 2006 The
Flock, equestrian expertise and provider of show jumping horses
2004 2006
Rider and Stunt double for jumping scenes in TV Pilot and TV series Wild
Fire ABC Family series. Show
rider, coach, trainer/provider of a string of 7 cast horses
2004 2005 Show rider, trainer showing horses in both the mid-west and west coast.
2000 2003
Rider / Assistant for Rob Gage Stables. American International leading
rider LA, Ca., & Corrales, NM.
Showed 15 Jumpers level 1 thru 7, seven hunters baby
green to 1st Year green division.
2000 2001
Rider for Holly Dietz, Horses Unlimited Warmblood Farm,
ABQ, NM.
1999 2001
Rider for Trudy Glefke, Roads End Hunter / Jumper Sales
Barn, ABQ, NM.
Also coached and rode for private clients.
2000 (January to May)
Rider and Assistant Trainer for Guy McElvain, El Corazon
Holsteiner
Breeding Farm, Lemitar, NM.
1999 2000
Assistant Trainer for GP Dressage Instructor, Sara
Palmer, ABQ, NM.
1998 1999
Rider for Karen Cranham, Cobblestone Riding Club. ABQ,
NM.
H /J, Equitation.
Managed Youth summer riding camp.
1998 (Summer)
Rider for Trudy Glefke, H/J sales
barn, ABQ, NM.
1998 1999
Working Student and Rider for Carol Nichols, Santa Fe Pony Club, Cerillos,
NM. CT / Eventing.
1996 1997
Working Student and
Rider for Jeffrey Ryding at Goose Downs Farm
(leading 3-day event barn in NM), Galisteo, NM.
1996
Exercise Rider for Jay Roehl TB Racehorse Barn. Showed two hunter and one Jumper.
Summer - Working student for Sara Williams, Invicta
Farms H/J ABQ, NM.
.
1995
Working Student for Olympic 3-day rider, Jose Luis Perez Soto, ABQ, NM.
2006
Top placing at Santa Fe Grand Prix
speed class. Top 3 finish in
Regular working Hunter and modified
open jumpers at Sandia Classics Horse Show.
Competed in Germany.
2005
Champion and reserve champion in the Open Jumpers at national shows. Reserve Champion of the Albuquerque Charity
event Mini Grand Prix.
2004 Many blue ribbons in the 4 ft 3 jumpers in
the Colorado circuit. Top 5 finishes in
the l4ft 6 in the Colorado circuit.
Regular working Hunter Champion at the Arizona fall festival. Rider of
the Zone 8 Hunter 04 top five finish.
Competed four horses in the level
4ft and 4 ft 6. High point
Champion with a %76 at rated competitions.
2003 Many
top finishes at National shows on the East Coast. Myopia Hunt Mini Grand
Prix and High Jump winner. First
Place in the 4 ft 3 Stake Class at the Farmington Classic in Connecticut. First Place at the Silver Oaks Equestrian
Festival . Reserve Champion at the Fidelity Classic in Mass.
2002 Sandia
Classics I & II (A Rated) Won four division championships in Jumpers and Second
and Third in First year green conformation hunter.
Tucson Four weeks.
Won Training High Jumper and schooling highs on three horses; Placed on six horses.
2001 Indio Desert Circuit Five weeks. Showed in training high and preliminary
divisions
The Oaks, California Showed in training high division.
2000 Spruce Meadows Three weeks. Canada and North America (A Rated). Preliminary
Open Division, 4 to 4 3, one horse.
North American Young Riders Championship Zone 8, FEI, 4
6, Parker, Colorado.
Indio Desert Circuit (A Rated) Four weeks. Training Jumpers 3 3 to 3 6, two horses.
Sandia Classics I & II (A Rated) Training Jumpers
3 3 to 3 9. Modified Open 4 to 4
3
Beginning Hunter, 3 horses.
1999 / 1998 (Fall & Winter)
New Mexico H/J A
Rated Shows. Pre-Green Hunter / Jumper
3 3 division, 10 horses.
1997
Sandia Classics I & II (A Rated).
2000
Dances With Horses Prix St. George, 4th
and 1st Level, 2 horses.
Dances With Horses II, Training and 1st
Level, 4 horses.
Dances With Horses I, Training and 1st Level,
2 horses.
Regional Arabian Show, 1st Level, one horse.
1999
Pantano, Arizona,
(FEI) Young Rider Qualifying Test and 4th Level.
Fiesta de Dressage,
Training Level, 2 horses.
1998
Horse Trials New Mexico, Arizona & Colorado. Preliminary Level 3 9.
1996 1998
Competed in approximately 25 Horse Trials in New Mexico,
Arizona, Colorado. Novice and
Training Level 3 3.
2000
Arizona Regional Arabian Show, 2 horses.
1999 2000
Regional Arabian Show, Hunter Pleasure, Hunter Over
Fences and Dressage classes for 3
Sweepstakes Horses.
Rob Gage, California & New Mexico, two years.
Trudy Glefke, New Mexico, seven years.
Karen Cranham, New Mexico, three years.
Allison Powell, New Mexico, two years.
Sara Williams, new Mexico, two years.
Sara Palmer, New Mexico, three years.
James Riedeman, New Mexico, three years.
Liza Dowling, New Mexico, two years.
Gette Clotworthy, New Mexico, one Year.
Nathan Martin, New Mexico, one year.
Jeffrey Ryding, New Mexico, 6 months.
Carol Nichols, New Mexico, one year.
Winner, three Open Jumper classes, 4 3 to 4 6, New Mexico A Rated Shows, 2002.
Represented Zone 8 in the North American Young Rider
Championship CSIJY Team,
August 2000.
Third Place in the United States Equestrian Team Medal
(Equitation), Sandia Classics
2000.
Placed Fifth in the Modified Open Jumper Division, 4 3
at Sandia Classics, 2000.
University Of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM ,
References available upon request.