and racing performance of nearly 300 horses in a 2-year-old sale. Knee and front fetlock conformation were most closely scrutinized for this study. She reported that about half of the racehorses ...

If the horse shows a shortened forelimb stride but no obvious lameness, it is possible that by desensitising one front foot using nerve blocks and thus relieving pain, lameness may become apparent ...

More than 40% of horses that experienced fatal proximal forelimb fractures that were reported to HISA had no recorded high-speed furlongs within the 60 days prior to the fracture occurring.

Figure 1: Equine distal forelimb (medial view ... during high-frequency small displacement vibration. One front leg from each of six horses killed at an abattoir was mounted in a hydraulic ...

Again, the muscle stabilises the top of the scapula, enabling the rest of the chain to retract the forelimb and pull the heavy weight of the horse’s body over the planted foreleg. Strength ...