Glennis won the Pacific League World Cup title in 1990, and attended the European final in s’Hertogenbosch to receive her trophy. In that same year, she and Livius were members of that historic first ever Australian Dressage Team that competed at the WEG in Stockholm.

In 1992 Glennis became the first Australian to actually ride at a World Cup final, when she made the trip to Göteborg with Livius.

Glennis describes her first trip to Europe to train:

“I left Australia three days after my twenty first birthday. A couple of years earlier, when I was seventeen, my Dad had driven me down to Gert and Mary Donvig’s to do a clinic with ‘Bimbo’ Peilicke with my old first cross Quarter horse, Hinkler. We thought we were pretty good, we’d done a few years of pony club dressage, done very well, and I had already done a Prix St Georges, so I thought this was pretty easy.”

“I went down there and I was rather horrified, it certainly brought me down to earth. That’s when I first met Bimbo. Then Gert Donvig won a scholarship and went over to Germany with Ron Patterson, and they connected with Berndt von Knesebeck who acted as our agent when I went to Germany. He was absolutely brilliant, he did all the paperwork for us, and he lined up a horse for lease as I was staying there for three months and he organized competitions for us to go to.”

“Unfortunately he got me the wrong translations to some of the tests, so I rode different tests to the ones the judges were expecting. Of course it was doubly difficult when I didn’t understand what they were saying – I only knew the word ‘voltes’ – so it was pretty difficult in the beginning, but I got through it all.”

“I ended up staying for three years, and I bought Livius… so my three months ended up a very long three months.”