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.
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