However they go down, injuries of the kind that doomed Go For Wand — ruptured suspensory ligaments and blood vessels and a dislocated ankle — present a daunting medical problem. (si.com)
And no sooner had that unseemly mess subsided than Prairie Bayou, the Preakness winner himself, was galloping quietly down the backstretch in the Belmont Stakes when he broke down so completely that his left foreleg was a ruin — a broken cannon bone, a ruptured suspensory ligament and fractured sesamoid in his ankle, and a pastern bone so devastated, as an autopsy would reveal, that it looked like a building shattered by an earthquake. (si.com)
Diagnostics and Exam Findings: Diagnosed with acute bilateral and biaxial desmitis / degeneration of all four hindlimb suspensory branches after clinical examination, diagnostic analgesia, ultrasonography and radiography. (litecure.com)