Victoria Lambert has ridden a few futurity horses before, but considered the SWRHA Futurity a breakthrough. Riding Guaranteed By Amos, she scored a 214.5 to win the Championship and $1,670. Guaranteed By Amos is a mare by A Famous Amos out of Okies Paulette by Okie Paul Quixote. Lambert, Hempstead, Texas, purchased her during the Tulsa Reining Classic this year through Michigan trainer Pat Rogers.<\/p>\n
The mare is now in training with Jared Leclair, Pilot Point, Texas. \u201cShe\u2019s wonderful,\u201d Lambert said of Guaranteed By Amos. \u201cI tried her in September, and Jared took her home with him and has done a fabulous job with her.\u201d<\/p>\n
She and the mare won the Non-Pro and Intermediate Non-Pro at the 4R Performance Futurity in Katy, Texas, in October. In Ardmore, they marked a 209.5 in the first go. Lambert said this was the first futurity in which she improved her score from the first go round to the finals. \u201cI was not very organized in the first go,\u201d she said. \u201cJared worked with me and really helped me get a plan in my mind. He got the horse prepared and it worked really well. I felt like I rode smoother in the finals.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lambert and her husband, Carl, own a number of mares, including Memorable Affair, the earner of $93,840, according to Equi-Stat records, and several show horses. She said her husband and her mother, Nancy Lengyel, are \u201cextremely supportive.\u201d \u201cMy mom and husband love the horses, and they are the reason I have horses,\u201d she said. Lambert owns Caballo Rojo Publishing, which publishes the Brahman Journal and does Web site design and video presentations for the cattle and horse industries.<\/p>\n