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- Harness Glossary of Terms.
Overview
Harness racing is generally raced in an anti-clockwise direction, the horses usually start from a mobile (or moving) barrier. Six, eight or sometimes ten, horses will start from the front row with any remaining horses lining up behind them. Harness races are usually conducted over distances between 1609 metres (one mile) and 2400 metres. Generally, pacing races use a mobile start, but sometimes from a "standing start" (where the horses begin from standing still).
Special breeds of horses known as standardbreds are used, which compete at the more popular pacing gait or a trotting gait, these terms describing how the horses run. If a trotter or a pacer gallops or otherwise breaks stride during a race, the driver must pull up the horse and coax it back into the approved gait. This is vitally important, because it is unfair to the other runners and is an offence.
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