QUARTERS, with respect to the parts of a horse, is employed in various senses. Thus the shoulders and fore-legs are
called the fore-quarters, and the hips and hinder-legs the hind-quarters. The quarters of a horse's foot are the sides of the coffin, comprehending between the toe and the heel; the inner quarters are those opposite to one another, facing from one foot to the other, and these are always weaker than the outside quarters, which lie on the external sides of the coffin. False-quarters are a cleft in the horn of a horse's hoof, extending from the coronet to the shoe. A horse is said to be a quarter-cast when, for any disorder in the coffin, we are obliged to cut one of the quarters of the hoof.