In steeplechasing, more particularly to teach a horse to jump. A technique where radio-labeled technetium is injected intravenously into a horse. A gamma camera is used to record uptake of the nucleotide in the tissues. It is particularly useful diagnostically to localize an area of inflammation in the musculoskeletal system. The most common radioisotope used to image bones is technetium-99m. scratch To be taken out of a race before it starts.
Trainers usually scratch horses due to adverse track conditions or a horse's adverse health.
A veterinarian can scratch a horse at any time. A procedure in which steel-alloy screws are surgically inserted to hold together a fractured bone. The area of the hoof that contains nerves and vessels. Fracture of the sesamoid bone. Fractures can be small chips or involve the entire bone.