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,
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