 Other horses at the farm have also been targeted |
A pony is in a critical condition in a specialist equine hospital after youths set off fireworks close to the community farm where she was kept. It is the latest in a series of malicious attacks on Home Farm near Markeaton, Derbyshire, which hosts school visits from Derby.
Cheyenne, a four-year-old mare was injured when the ponies bolted.
The bill for her treatment is set to reach �3,500, and it may force the farm to close.
Vandal attack
Farmer Richard Wilson said: "We had to rush her down to the equine centre at Newmarket where they operated almost straight away to cut her leg open and flush out all the infection."
Previous attacks on the animals at the farm at Markeaton, have included an arson attack in September.
Alice, another pony at the farm has also been targeted in a previous incident, when a pellet was fired into her skull by youths.
Mr Watson and Amy Green, the farm education officer are now calling for firework laws to be tightened.
Mr Watson said: "Somebody has let a firework off in the wood at the side of the field and frightened the living daylights out of them.
"They're letting them off every night for weeks on end before bonfire night and after and they're not just little bangs they're mighty big explosions.
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