Later, I realized it would be fine if I couldn’t train. “Questioning my abilities is what made me take a step back and re-evaluate everything.
“Honestly, after I got back on Power for the first time, there was a spot where I quit for nine months because I didn’t think I was going to be able to train anymore,” Snyder reflects. While the occasion was joyous, she says it was also sobering, because it was at that moment that she realized that nothing, not even riding horses, was going to be the same again.Īmberley had already trained her gelding Power before her accident, so she was able to use her hand cues to keep competing with him. After she was Life Flighted to a Rawlins, Wyo., hospital, doctors told her she’d likely never move her legs again.īut within four months of her accident, a determined Snyder was in the saddle again aboard her beloved horse, Power. She glanced down to check her map, and the next thing she knew, she awoke in a snowbank with her back against a fence post, trying to figure out why she could wiggle her fingers but not her toes. On the day of her accident, Snyder was driving through Wyoming on her way to the 2010 National Western Stock Show and Rodeo in Denver. It’s the perfect combination.” Catalyst for Change “With barrel racing, I was able to combine my love of horses with my love for speed and my competitive side. “I think that once horses are in your blood, they’re never not in it,” Snyder says. Even when there are times that I feel overwhelmed, I remember, ‘Nope, I’m serving the purpose I’m supposed to serve.’ When that happens, I’ll take a second for myself, reboot and come back out.”īarrel racing is a sport Snyder has always felt born to pursue, and she wasn’t about to let her accident stop her from enjoying the thrill of riding a fast horse in good dirt. “But I think that God gave me this opportunity and has allowed it to unfold. “Honestly, I try to simplify what I do and say I am just telling stories of what I’ve done and how I’ve done it, and I’m lucky enough to get to inspire and motivate people along the way,” Snyder says.
Amberley Snyder was voted the fan favorite to compete at RFD-TV’s The American, which is the richest one-day rodeo.
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