Ask the Nutritionist: Dr. Getty's Forum for Equine Nutrition
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Hello Kim,
Since you're able to obtain Strategy (a Purina product) perhaps you can get Purina's Wellsolve L/S instead. This is a low starch feed whereas Strategy is a sweet feed and has more sugar and starch than feeding plain oats!
Enrich 12 is a vitamin/mineral supplement that can be fed to fill in nutritional gaps when the recommended amount of a commercially fortified feed is not being fed. But, keep in mind, that it, too, is high in sugar and starch.
If you need a vitamin/mineral supplement, go with something like Glanzen Complete -- which is flaxseed meal based for omega 3 fatty acids. and does not have any oats, or sugar added.
All the best,
Dr. Getty 
Author of Feed Your Horse Like A Horse
Where are you from? Bayfield, CO