Competitor Arielle Phillips’ horse, Detail, was also stabbed several times. In a social media post, Phillips described the teen as “a crazy obsessed stalker who has been following me on social media for a long time, obsessing over Detail, obsessing over meeting me.”

None of the horses should be fine, although one mare is in worse condition that the other two.

Looks like auto correct turned your sentence into a mishmash. I hate when it does that!

Let's let the horses give the perp three swift kicks to her head. Done. Problem solved. Next

I never thought of them as crazy really.

one was my cousin's daughter.

Another one taught me how ro ride.

I had an ex-barrel horse once. he was definitely nuts.

Family is family.

In an article--and I have no idea where I saw it now--that her parents have been warned that she is a bully. So it sounds like they can't say they are shocked at this behavior.

and over would be shocking to any parent. --well most anyway.

I've never known a girl who didn't love horses that they would sacrifice themselves for the animal.

This is sociopathic and a sad sign of something much worse in this kid's head and heart.

those poor horses and their riders and fans

I don't know a single, solitary person who isn't heartsick for what those horses and their owners/riders/connections are going through. But some of the reactions I'm seeing online seem to be just different stops on the same spectrum that includes willfully harming an animal.

My FB search results of the girl's name yesterday turned up posts by two different women publicly announcing that they weren't her and they had no connection to horses or barrel racing. Apparently they're receiving messages/comments; I'm guessing threats. I'm also guessing no one contacting these people have any meaningful connection to those involved so, as always, I ask WTAF compels a person to send threats to a complete stranger, let alone one they can't even be sure is their target.

And then there are the comments, including a man whose profile indicates he shoes horses, recommending use of a specific hammer on her skull.

People are scouring the internet and drawing highly detailed conclusions about this young woman and her family from scraps online but no one really knows anything about her, her family, her emotional and mental health.

A lot of the comments strike me as performative rage ginned up and rewarded by the nature of social media and the internet. The last post I read, in which the FB user offered her "74-cents," suggested a lot of sympathy being posted online. Maybe it's the algorithms but I haven't really seen it. The online lynch mob seems to be outweighing questions about this person's mental health and whether or not a 100% punitive response is the most appropriate one.

I'm a horse person and, as I said, heartsick contemplating what those animals experienced, but I'm also pretty sick at what I've seen posted by strangers about a stranger that we know next to nothing about.

Whether its just her, or her parents pushing her to be highly competitive to this level of violence, is not healthy. I'm guessing she views her own horse as just a means to an end. She's not even an animal lover.

There's a national organization called, "Pony Club," for kids. It teaches them basic horsemanship. Its not competitive, although they may go to some little shows--more like learn everything about your horse in a non-threatening environment with your friends. It promotes healthy attitudes. This girl must have missed that.

Horses can recover from such grievous injuries as long as she didn't hit organs, or slice leg tendons. A kid that would do this will move on to violence against humans though. Whatever psychological therapy she gets in juvie jail, I hope her parents get the bejesus sued out of them. I don't ride Western, but I've read a good barrel racing horse can be worth many thousands of dollars. The damage to the other girls is incalculable.

Cheating is in their DNA.

What the hell is WRONG with people?