Although the suspensory is considered a ligament, it is appropriate to discuss this structure in our tendon series since technically it is a vestigial ("existing as a rudimentary structure") tendon. To review the anatomy, the suspensory originates high on the limb near the top of the cannon bone and travels about two-thirds of the way down to the fetlock as a single structure. In the lower
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