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OTTB stands for Off the Track Thoroughbred. The OT stands for of the track and the TB stands for Thoroughbred and TB is a short form of Thoroughbred. This means that the horse was previously a racing Thoroughbred however their racing career is over.
The radiograph above (Figure 1) is of a horse's hock or tarsus. This view is also known as the Lateral view or side view. The equine hock joint is made up of 4 individual joints which are labelled above. The bottom two joints are also known as the distal hock joints and include the distal inter-tarsal joint (DIT) and the tarsal metatarsal joint (TMT).