SPLAWN LIVES! IN my April 22 column I mentioned how we horse owners missed the dedication and service provided by the now retired Drs. Bob Mowbray and Eric Splawn, adding Dr. Splawn had since past away from cancer. I’m so happy to say I was wrong! Reader Carol Johnson contacted me to say Dr. Splawn actually beat his cancer and is alive and well living in Florida with his wife Peggy! Carol shared how Dr. Splawn had a good laugh over my mistakenly saying he died.
WITH A HEAVY heart, I said goodbye to Sunny, my light-colored palomino last week. Horseplay readers may recall Sunny came into my life after she was given to my niece, Brooke Stromberg (see my column of July 8, 2018 HORSEPLAY: A rider rediscovers her passion after addiction | Peninsula Daily News.) My niece, an addict who was clean at the time, and Sunny began racing together to great success. She was then gifted Sunny, but soon after fell back into the trappings of an addict and Sunny became mine to care for, and I grew to love her. My niece is living in California and I hear is no longer using.