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We realized that with two of us in public service, there was no one to stay home with the kids,” Stricklin explained of her returning to the farm full-time last year. She grew up riding competitive trail with grandmother Jean Scott and knows the horse business.
“I still had my ‘first’ horse, Sandy” Stricklin said, explaining how the idea of a foal rescue came to be last spring. A friend, Charles Pelham, had an orphaned foal that needed a substitute mother. Sandy 36 years old, and gentle yet firm, was the obvious choice. Stricklin took in the colt, who she named Buffet, and put him in with Sandy.
“Sandy instantly bonded with him” Stricklin recalled of the 2006 pairing. “We bucket raised him — she couldn’t nurse, but she did everything else. She taught the little guy how to be a hearse.”
Buoyed by the process, Stricklin looked into offering her services, and Sandy’s, to other orphan foals; the nurse mare industry emerged as an obvious partner. Though Sandy died over the winter, Stricklin continued with her plan, naming the rescue operation after her beloved Sandy.
She discovered the Fancy
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