The Team Roping Journal

(At Home With)

| at home with | Jake Barnes | Clay O | US programs

Q: You grew up at the racetrack, right?

: Yes, my brothers and sister (Chuck, Cody and Cheyann, who's married to National Finals Rodeo steer wrestler Birch Negaard) and I grew up on our parents' (Cliff and Glenna Lambert) place in El Paso, where we rode and roped every day. Dad was a jockey. He won the first All American Futurity at Ruidoso Downs (in New Mexico) riding Galobar in 1959. We had a really good life, and spent summers in Ruidoso. We didn't grow up rich, but we didn't lack

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