Gay Lawless

Gay Lawless: We are in England, surrounded almost entirely by the horse-racing set, specifically, those who race "trotters." Trotters and pacers are almost always attached to a two-wheeled cart, called a sulky, on which a driver sits. Sulky-driven races make up the major part of harness racing. A trotter runs by moving its legs forward in diagonal pairs (right front and left rear, then left front and right rear), while a pacer moves laterally (right front and right rear, then left front and...