Obsessive teen girl allegedly stabs three horses at Las Vegas barrel racing event as grisly pictures emerge

A teenage barrel racer allegedly went on a savage stabbing spree inside a Las Vegas horse barn, leaving three prized competition horses slashed, bloodied, and stitched up in a shocking overnight attack.The girl, whose name has not been released because she is a minor, was arrested Saturday after the attack at the 2026 NBHA Professional’s Choice Vegas Super Show at the South Point Arena & Equestrian Center.Las Vegas Metropolitan Police said officers responded to a barn in the 9700 block of Las Vegas Boulevard South shortly after 2 a.m.regarding an injured horse.

When they arrived, they found three horses that had been “intentionally injured with a sharp object.”Investigators soon identified the teenage competitor as a suspect, noting she had access to the barn where the horses were kept.“Investigators believe she may have used a knife to inflict multiple injuries to the horses,” police said in a news release.The injuries were not life-threatening but are expected to keep the horses out of competition, according to the Sun.One of the injured horses was Saaul Good — known as Sully.His owner, competitor Hailey Krahenbuhl, said the horse had been stabbed several times.“Sully was stabbed multiple times last night.

I have no words, he is stitched up and in recovery,” Krahenbuhl wrote on Facebook.She later added that another one of her horses, Foxy, narrowly escaped injury.“Foxy was almost stabbed but is okay,” she wrote.Another horse, a mare named Detail owned by competitor Arielle Phillips, was found by her owner wandering the barn, bleeding and scared.“The vet confirmed these were perfect stab wounds; there was no way it was anything else,” Phillips wrote, adding that Detail was treated at the barn and received stitches.Phillips later posted photos revealing gruesome wounds on the horse’s shoulder and chest, with blood-spattered hay marking the aftermath in the stall.She claimed the suspect was “a crazy, obsessed stalker” who repeated...