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What is a pastern?

What is a pastern? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The area on a horse's leg between the fetlock joint and the hoof.
  2. (obsolete) A shackle for horses while pasturing.
  3. (obsolete) A patten.
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In the front legs, ideal proportions are long shoulder, short arm, long forearm, short cannon, medium pastern.
The 16-year-old son of Sovereign Dancer out of Din's Times, by Olden Times, fractured the pastern bone in his left foreleg.
Finally, he injured a pastern training, and it was decided to send him home.
The hoof pastern axis may be broken forward or broken backward and the heel angle decreased with a low heel.
Shorty is a 3-year old brown gelding with a star, strip, snip, connected lower tip, left front sock and right front pastern.
The 13-year-old son of Ahonoora shattered his left front pastern on October 2, and underwent surgery the next day, Racing Post reported.

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