The Grand-Prix-level show-jumping horse had been led out of his stall during the night and "filleted": "The slices were so deliberate..."

"... and so well done that the moment you saw it: This was a professional.”

Phedras’s carcass was found lying partially against the fence and ground. The head and neck were intact, but the legs were gone from the shoulders and cuts in the torso were smooth and deliberate.

“They literally filleted his shoulders,” she said.