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to become dry and hard, when the expansion of the foot at 

 the coronet cracks the inelastic hoof below it. It is a legal 

 unsoundness. See Sand Crack. 



Quarter Cut ; Quarter GrabMng-. The act of the 



horse when at speed, by which he grabs, or cuts the quarters 

 of the fore feet by one or the other of the hind feet. This 

 may be due to faulty conformation, but it is often caused by a 

 misstep or a break. It is generally the outside quarter that is 

 most liable to injury, and the special use of quarter boots on 

 the fore feet is to prevent them from being cut by horses that 

 are quarter grabbers. 



Quarter Horse. A horse that is good for a dash for 

 a quarter of a mile at high speed ; a sprinter ; not a stayer for a 

 long distance ; a quitter. 



Quarter Mile. AVorld's running record to close of 

 1893 : Bob Wade, four years old, at Butte, Montana, August 

 20, 1890; 0.21f 



Quarterstretch. The homestretch of the course. 



Queens of the Turf. The queens of the trotting turf, 

 to the close of the year 1893, have been: 1. Lady Suffolk, 

 gr. m. foaled in 1833; by Engineer 2d, (3); dam, by Don 

 Quioxite, by Messenger; Hoboken, N. J., October 7, 1844, 

 2:28. — 2. Highland Maid, (a converted pacer), b. m. foaled in 

 1847; by Saltram; dam, Roxana, by Hickory; Centerville, 

 N. Y., June 15, 1853, 2:27. — 3. Flora Temple, b. m. foaled in 

 1845; by Bogus Hunter; dam, Madam Temple, by the Terry 

 Horse; East New York, N. Y., September 2, 1856, 2.24^. She 

 had a reign extending from 1856 to 1867, her best time being 

 2:19^, at Kalamazoo, Michigan, October 15, 1859, — 4. Gold- 

 smith Maid, b. m., foaled in 1857; by Abdallah, (15), by 

 Abdallah (1), Milwaukee, Wis., September 6, 1871, 2:17. She 

 •reigned from 1871 to 1878, her best time having been made at 

 Boston, Mass., September 2, 1874, 2:14, when she was seventeen 

 years old. — 5. i\Iaud S., ch. m., foaled in 1874; by Harold, 

 (413); dam. Miss Russell, by Pilot. Jr., (12). In 1880 she 

 lowered the world's record, but her time was beaten the same 

 year by St. Julien. At Rochester, N. Y., August 11, 1881, 

 she trotted in 2:10|, and from that time to 1891 her reign 

 was undisputed, except for a single day, (August 1, 1884), 

 when Jay-Eye-See beat her at Providence, R. I., by three-quar- 

 ters of a second. Her best time was made at Cleveland, Ohio, 

 July 30, 1885, 2:08f.— 6. Sunol, b. m., foaled in 1886; by 

 Electioneer, (125); dam, Waxana, by General Benton, (1755) ; 

 Stockton, California, October 20, 1891, 2:08f — 7. Nancy Hanks, 

 br. m., foaled in 1886 ; by Happy Medium, (400); dam, Nancy 



