LAST SATURDAY MY neighbor, Kris Phillips, shared how earlier this month she attended a Bureau of Land Management mustang auction in Cle Elum, where she witnessed bidding wars over two mustangs, which were owned by two sisters from Agnew, Libby and Asha Swanberg.
WILD MUSTANGS! WHAT comes to mind when you read those words? Perhaps pictures or movies of them rearing up and fighting hard not to be caught, ridden or trained, right? One doesn’t typically, myself included, think of young youths breaking and training wild mustangs, winning them over using patient, calm repetitive training methods.
WHO’D A THOUGHT the day would come when stem-cell therapy would be used to improve the healing of tendon and suspensory ligament injuries in horses? I had the privilege of learning more about it through Sequim’s Neon Rider 4-H club member Ruby Coulson when I interviewed her after placing third in the Individual Presentation Contest for her slide-show performance on “Equine Regenerative Therapies” at the Eastern National 4-H event held in Louisville, Kentucky Nov. 4-6.
ARE YOU READY to rally? For Libby Swanberg, rallies are one of the most thrilling aspects of being in the Ranahan Pony Club, a chapter of the United States Pony Club.