Gloria Knight

 

EXPERTISE

Jumper / Dressage / Hunter / Equitation / Trainer-Coach / Equestrian Stuntwoman / SAG Actress

 

EXPERIENCE

 

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 Kilmer’s 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, Road’s 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.

 

 

SHOW / COMPETITION EXPERIENCE

 

HUNTER / JUMPER

 

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).

 

DRESSAGE

 

          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.    

         

 

EVENTING

 

          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”.

 

ARABIAN

 

          2000

          Arizona Regional Arabian Show, 2 horses.

 

          1999 – 2000

          Regional Arabian Show, Hunter Pleasure, Hunter Over Fences and Dressage classes for 3 

          Sweepstakes Horses.

 

TRAINING & COACHING

 

HUNTER AND JUMPER

          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.

 

DRESSAGE

          Sara Palmer, New Mexico, three years.

          James Riedeman, New Mexico, three years.

          Liza Dowling, New Mexico, two years.

          Gette Clotworthy, New Mexico, one Year.

 

COMBINED TRAINING

          Nathan Martin, New Mexico, one year.

          Jeffrey Ryding, New Mexico, 6 months.

          Carol Nichols, New Mexico, one year.

 

ACHIEVEMENTS

         

          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.

         

 

EDUCATION

          University Of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM ,

 

References available upon request.