Harness racing use a standing start. The sulky (informally known as a "bike") is a light, two-wheeled cart equipped with bicycle wheels. The driver (not a "jockey", as in thoroughbred racing) carries a light whip chiefly used to signal the horse by tapping and to make noise by striking the sulky shaft. There are strict rules as to how and how much the whip may be used; in some jurisdictions (like Norway), whips are forbidden. For exercising or training, the drivers use what is known as a "jog cart," which is a sulky that is heavier and bulkier than a racing unit.
Cart animal that pulls them, such as "horsecart" or "oxcart". In modern times, horsecarts are used in competition while draft horse showing. A "dogcart", however, is usually a cart designed to "carry" hunting dogs: an open cart with two cross-seats back to back; the dogs could be penned between the rear-facing seat and the back end. The term "cart" (synonymous in this sense with "chair") is also used for various kinds of lightweight, two-wheeled carriages, some of them "sprung carts" (or "spring carts"), especially those used as open pleasure or sporting vehicles. They could be drawn by a horse, pony or