Harness racing in Australia Harness racing in Australia Harness racing, also colloquially known as trotting or the trots, is an important spectator sport in Australia, with large amounts of money wagered annually with bookmakers and the Totalisator Agency Board (TAB). In Australia there are 91 harness racing tracks, which hold over 1,900 meetings annually. There are approximately 2,900 drivers and 4,000 trainers with about 5,000 Standardbred horses foaled and registered each year. Harness racing in Australia is conducted with Standardbred horses racing around a track while pulling a driver in a two-wheeled cart called a "sulky", "gig" or "bike". Standardbred racehorses compete in two
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