Sulky Sulky A sulky is a lightweight cart having two wheels and a seat for the driver only but usually without a body, generally pulled by horses or dogs, and is used for harness races. The term is also used for a light stroller, an arch mounted on wheels or crawler tracks, used in logging, or other types of vehicle having wheels and usually a seat for the driver, such as a plough, lister or cultivator. A sulky for horses is a lightweight two-wheeled, single-seat cart that is used as a form of rural transport in many parts of the world.
Cart before the horse pulls a cart, despite rare examples of vehicles pushed by horses in 19th-century Germany and early 20th-century France. The earliest recorded use of the proverb was in the early 16th century. It was a figure of speech in the Renaissance. The idiom is used in a context which reverses the usual chronological order of A and B. Cart before the horse The expression cart before the horse is an idiom or proverb used to suggest something is done contrary to a conventional or culturally expected order or relationship. A cart is a vehicle which is ordinarily pulled by a horse,