I don’t understand why the first horse that was injured did not put up such a clamor that it would have been noticed,,,Was the barn empty of other people at the time?
At most bigger events, horses are in barns and participants stay in campers or horse trailers with living quarters adjacent to but not necessarily right near the barn. Hoirses whinny and sometimes kictk stall walls and that type of noise wouldn’t have been unusual at a bigger event venue where horses are keyed up from being in a new strange place around horses they don’t know. The first attack occurred a few minutes after midnight per the security cameras at the barn. She entered the horse’s stall and stabbed him in the neck. She then called the owners (info is always posted on the stall doors) and said she had walked by and saw the horse bleeding, and thought he had hurt himself in the stall somehow. She claimed to be trying to help and the horse got loose. The horse was running around the barn area in pretty much chaos. He was captured by his owners and brought back to the stall and attended to by the veterinarian on the grounds. The teen who stabbed him was standing by acting like a concerned bystander during the time the horse was being attended to. At one point she was asked if she saw anything, and shook her head no and said she needed to go. It was at that point, 2 horses elsewhere in the barn (picture a place the size of a Super-Walmart with 150 horse stalls to give you an idea of the layout) were stabbed in their hindquarters and she left the grounds. Very shortly after this transpired, security was reviewing the camera footage and she was recognized...she was, in fact, a competitor there at this event. She was picked up 2 hours after the first attack at a nearby hotel. She’s a 17 year old white female whose name is Emily Grace. She was held without bail and released to her parents yesterday. The first horse required surgery but will be ok, and the other 2 were treated on scene.