Patent ID: 8147430

Claim:
An apparatus for testing the soundness of a horse's tendon and ligaments by flexing a horse's lower leg, said apparatus comprising: a base plate having a forward and rear portion and adapted to be positioned on the ground beneath a horse's hoof; a rotatable plate rotatably fixed to said base plate and rotatable through an angle of at least 55° with respect to said base plate; a horseshoe shaped guide means for receiving and positioning the horse's hoof on said rotatable plate with a forward portion of the horse's hoof positioned by said horseshoe shaped guide means on said rotatable plate; a lever fixed to a rear portion of said rotatable plate for manually tilting said rotatable plate with the horse's hoof thereon and to rotate the rotatable plate through an angle of 55°; and a scale for indicating the angle between said rotatable plate and said base plate as an indication of the soundness of the horse's tendons and ligaments in the horse's lower leg.