Fancy and Sandee
This time curiosity will not hurt the cat! All photos courtesy of Mary Sue.
SANDEE & FANCY
Fancy – brown with white spots pinto mare; born 1997; adopted 2005 from the Red Rock HMA (Horse Management Area); Tunnel Springs was her home range, southeast Spring Mountains.
Fancy is a year younger than her sister Daisy, who was adopted by Mary Sue.
Her father was a large bay stallion. Severe drought was the reason that the wild horses were removed.
Sandee took Fancy from her first adopter who felt she had too many horses. Fancy was trained for 3 months in ground work by Judy Wangler, then Sandee finished the mounting and riding with ease within another 3 months. Fancy loves to please and do right far more than domestic horses. Sandee says she also really listens!
Fancy goes shoeless as the farrier says she has good feet.
Years after the sisters, Daisy & Fancy, were removed from the wild, they were reunited in Vegas. The affection was immediately evident. It was as if they had never been separated!
A gentle Fancy cozied up to Sandee.
Fancy on the trot in a corral – with her old home in Red Rock in the background – a far cry from her early days in the photo to the right.
Left to right: Sissy, a 1996 mare & Daisy's older sister; baby Fancy; Fancy's mother; Fancy's daddy; older bay sister of Daisy & Fancy probably born 1994; Daisy as a yearling, and an unknown sorrel with white blaze, and facing right, an unknown sorrel & palomino.
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Fancy is the bay mare with the white star, just left of the pinto on the extreme right – taken by Mary Sue during the BLM roundup
Rosie, mother (dam) of Daisy & Fancy trotting with baby Fancy in the wild.
Father (Sire) to Daisy & Fancy roaming free