Basic Equine Anatomy

This is the beginning of a series of tutorial articles. It’s taken me a while to complete them as I wrote them in the order that happened to interest me at the time instead of an order that would make sense. I started with a lengthy article about the mechanics of the lower leg, but had to work backwards to explain safety, basic tools and their use, and now anatomy.

When talking about anatomy, I try to be as specific as possible.  This tends to lead to lot of a technical terms, some commonly known and some not-so-common.  And a few not-so-technical.  I’m fond of the word “feetsies” instead of hooves.  It embarrasses my farrier.

The following illustration includes both.  You may want to refer back to this for future tutorials.

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