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Healthy horses trot with symmetric gaits, and the researchers think an accelerometer placed at a horse’s center of gravity – along the top of its neck above the shoulders – should be able to detect an asymmetry in equestrian gaits. In a test on 12 healthy horses, the sensor accurately diagnosed their trots as symmetrical. The team now plans to run a tests on lame horses to see if deviations in that symmetry can be detected long before the eye can detect developing lameness.