US teen accused of stabbing three horses at Las Vegas rodeo

Prosecutors seek to try 17-year-old as adult after animals injured at major barrel racing event

A teenage girl who allegedly stabbed three show horses at a weekend rodeo in Las Vegas, Nevada, is a crazy, obsessed stalker" who waited in a darkened barn to commit the attacks, the owner of one of the animals has said.

The Nevada city's police department arrested a 17-year-old female on Saturday for the incidents at the National Barrel Horse Association's supershow, a competition for the sport's top riders at the South Point equestrian arena on the Las Vegas strip.