Harness racing Harness racing Harness racing is a form of horse racing in which the horses race at a specific gait (a trot or a pace). They usually pull a two-wheeled cart called a sulky, occupied by a driver, although in Europe, jockeys riding directly on saddled trotters ("trot monté" in French) is also conducted. In North America, harness races are restricted to Standardbred horses, although European racehorses may also be French Trotters or Russian Trotters, or have mixed ancestry with lineages from multiple breeds. Orlov Trotters race separately in Russia. The light cold-blooded Coldblood trotters and Finnhorses race separately in Finland,
In the Cart In the Cart "In the Cart" () is an 1897 short story by Anton Chekhov, also translated as "The Schoolmistress". The story, written in Nice, France, in November 1897, was first published in the No. 352, 21 December 1897 issue of the "Russkiye Vedomosti". Vasily Sobolevsky, the newspaper's editor-in-chief, asked the author to remove the bit in which Nikolay Alekseyev, the mayor of Moscow, assassinated in 1893 was mentioned. Chekhov complied, but later restored it. In a slightly revised version "In the Cart" was published in the 1898 (second) edition of a charitable compilation called "Brotherly Help for the Armenians