Three horses cut in bizarre Herndon attack Courtesy of Fairfax County police. Fairfax County police are searching for a suspect or suspects who cut three horses in a bizarre attack that left the animals with serious, but non-life threatening, wounds on their flanks. The horses, which are part of a Herndon equestrian program for people with disabilities, were slashed between 9 p.m. Wednesday and 9:30 a.m. Thursday after the animals were put in paddocks for the night, Fairfax County police said. The paddock where the horses are kept is in the 2600 block of Centreville Road next to Frying Pan Park. A volunteer with the Spirit Open Equestrian Program discovered the horses had been cut when she came in to feed them Thursday morning, said Julia Kelmers, another volunteer with the program. She was just shocked. Kelmers said. A veterinarian who treated the horses said the wounds were fresh, so it was more likely the horses were attacked on Thursday morning, Kelmers said. It appeared the animals had been cut with a knife or other sharp object, Kelmers said. A photo of one of the horses shows a long, deep gash on its side. The photos were too graphic to include with this post. The veterinarian stiched up the wounds on Spirit, Lucinda and Tess, and gave the horses antibiotics and painkillers, Kelmer said. They are expected to recover. Spirit's Facebook page says Tess, who is described as a "gentle giant mare," may have fought back against the attacker Kelmers said nothing was taken from the barn following the incident. Police have no motive or suspects in the attacks, but a man was spotted stumbling in Frying Pan Park around 11 a.m. Thursday morning. It is not known whether he was involved in the incident. He is described as a white man about 5"8" tall and 160 pounds. [The paddocks] are near a trail where a lot of local people go running. We're hoping someone was on the trail and saw something," said Officer Shelley Broderick, a spokeswoman for the Fairfax County police. Kelmers said the Spirit program has hired security and the husband of the group's found, Davorka Suvak, spent last night at the stable to ensure nothing else happened to the horses. Spirit, a non-profit organization which was founded in 2007, provides riding opportunities for people with physical, emotional and cognitive disabilities and diseases. Most of the people in the program are children, Kelmers said. "It seems really strange and hard to process," Kelmers said of the attack. It's also really sad. I know how much the horses mean to these kids.