Word: pasterns
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...previous period Captain Roark's little brown mare Joy Bells suddenly went lame. Helped off the field, Joy Bells was found to have a broken pastern in her right foreleg. Spectators were happy to hear that although she will never play polo again, she will not be destroyed. "For sentimental reasons" she will be carefully nursed until the leg mends, then she will pass the rest of her useful life foaling...
...equitator, when asked to tell what thrush, a disease of the hoof is, described it as a "small, brown bird, frequently seen around the stables." Another student of hippology defined the pastern as a "French scientist, famous for his Institute." A third Freshman came to the captain and complained that his horse would not open its mouth and seize the bit, although he had been holding it out to him for five minutes...