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 Just before 7 a.m. Sunday, Debbie Stephens, a renowned American equestrian, arrived at her horse barn in Palmetto, Fla., to check on paperwork and prepare for the day’s lessons. 
 
 Suddenly, one of the barn workers appeared with unsettling news: The latch on the stall of a prized Grand-Prix-level show jumper had been tampered with, and the horse was nowhere to be found. 
 
 Within a half-hour, there were signs of an unusual crime, then a brutal discovery: The horse had been led from its stall and taken far from the barn, where it was carved up so professionally that the authorities are investigating it as a case of animal cruelty carried out by an expert butcher for meat. 
 
 “He had been filleted,” Ms. Stephens, the horse’s owner, said in a telephone interview on Monday. “The slices were so deliberate and so well done that the moment you saw it: This was a professional.” 

 ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Just days ago, the nearly 1,300-pound, powerful jumping horse with a shiny chestnut coat named Phedras de Blondel arrived at his new home in the U.S., a farm owned by a champion rider in Florida. 
 
 In this Sunday, Oct. 25, 2015, photo, Steve Stephens owner of Imperial Farms Equestrian Center, talks while standing in front of the crime-taped stall of his wife's show jumper, Phedras de Blondel, in... (Associated Press) 
 
 This Sunday, Oct. 25, 2015, photo shows stalls at Imperial Farms Equestrian Center where a prized show horse, Phedras de Blondel, was found slaughtered and butchered in Palmetto, Fla. On Sunday morning,... (Associated Press) 
 
 This Sunday, Oct. 25, 2015, photo shows a sign for Imperial Farms Equestrian Center where a prized show horse, Phedras de Blondel, was found slaughtered and butchered in Palmetto, Fla. On Sunday morning,... (Associated Press) 
 
 In this Sunday, Oct. 25, 2015, photo, police tape surrounds the stall where a prized show horse, Phedras de Blondel, was found slaughtered and butchered at Imperial Farms Equestrian Center in Palmetto,... (Associated Press) 
 
 On Sunday morning, his owner discovered a horrific scene near his stall: the 12-year-old gelding had been slaughtered and butchered, most likely for his meat. Only his head and neck were left intact. Now, detectives are trying to find the perpetrators. 
 
 "What they did to this horse had nothing to do with his value," Debbie Stephens, who owns the 27-acre ranch in Palmetto, said Monday. She would not disclose the price she paid for the horse, but show horses can sell for tens of thousands of dollars. "It's one of the cruelest things that could happen to any horse. This just turned my life around." 
 
 Stephens is a veteran show jumper and holds the women's high jump record of 7 feet, 8 inches. Her husband was a co-designer of the show jumping courses for the 2008 Olympic Games in China. 
 
 The couple and others have raised more than $18,000 toward a reward they hope will lead to an arrest. Manatee County Sheriff's deputies say that's what it will take to crack the case. 
 
 Horse meat is illegal in Florida, but a black market for it exists, said Nick Atwood, a spokesman for the Animal Rights Foundation of Florida. During the 2010 Florida Legislative Session, he said, a bill passed that strengthened the state's restrictions on the sale of horse meat for human consumption. It is now illegal in Florida to sell, purchase, distribute, transport or possess horse meat unless "it is clearly stamped, marked, or described as horse meat for human consumption." 
 
 There are currently no U.S. slaughterhouses that process horse meat, however, making it difficult to obtain legally. 
 
 While eating horse meat is generally taboo in the U.S., it is common in dishes in some Caribbean and European countries. Atwood said there are some people living in the U.S. willing to pay top dollar. 
 
 It's not the first time horses have been targeted for meat in Florida. In July, animal rescue officials said a competitive show horse named "Smart Amanda Whiz" was slaughtered for its meat in Hialeah. And earlier this month, officials in Palm Beach County raided three slaughterhouses accused of illegally selling horse meat. 
 
 "The horses are slaughtered horribly," Atwood said. "There's no illusion of humane slaughter." 
 
 That's the case with Phedras, said Stephens, who said the horse was friendly and probably went with his killers willingly. She said he was likely still alive when they began to butcher him. 
 
 She said probably more than one person was involved in the slaughter because the horse was so big. 
 
 The horse was probably targeted because of his size, officials said. 
 
 "It could be the suspects scoped out this ranch," said Dave Bristow, a spokesman from the Manatee County Sheriff's Office. The ranch is not far from the interstate. 
 
 Stephens said she's reinforcing her ranch to protect the other 50 horses that live on the property — and she's planning to raise more money for the reward and speak out about the problem of illegal horse slaughter. Florida is a popular state for show horses, and she wants to protect other animals and owners. 
 
 "This can happen to anyone's horse," she said. 
 
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 Milly Cowan and Alex Paez, shown here posing with a horse on the beach in 2014, have been charged with misdemeanor charges after the animals were emaciated at their South Miami-Dade ranch. Facebook
– Just a couple of days after two Florida bodybuilders were arrested for starving their horses, an even more gruesome equine crime has been reported in Manatee County. "Your new horse is missing" was the first piece of bad news Debbie Stephens got on Sunday, per the New York Times—and that news soon got worse. After scouring her 30-acre ranch, the champion equestrian's assistant made a terrible discovery in an out-of-the-way paddock: the body of Phedras de Blondel—a $200,000 show horse that arrived from Germany on Friday, per the Bradenton Herald—all carved up for meat. "He had been filleted," Stephens tells the Times. "The slices were so deliberate and so well done ... This was a professional." She tells WTSP that the perp(s) "dismembered him right there and just left his rib cage ... neck and head. All four legs were cut off ... from his shoulder." An Animal Rights Foundation of Florida rep tells the AP that while horse meat is illegal in Florida, there's a big underground market for it, with people eager to pay big bucks for what's considered a common meal in some parts of Europe and the Caribbean. And Stephens and the authorities thinks that's why Phedras, who weighed between 1,300 and 1,500 pounds, was chosen. "We don't think they wanted this particular horse other than for its size," a Manatee County Sheriff's Office rep tells the Herald. In the meantime, Stephens and her husband, Steve, are ratcheting up security, advocating against illegal horse killings, and fundraising for the reward pot for information to solve the crime. "It's one of the cruelest things that could happen to any horse," Stephens tells the AP. "This just turned my life around." (Horse slaughter has been going on in Florida for some time.)