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Max Power
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The "sulky" The modern harness racing vehicle developed from a single-seat pleasure conveyance. Earlier racing had used carts. In its final form it is little more than a U-shaped shaft mounted on two wheels with a seat at the end of the U. When it was introduced in harness racing early in the 19th century it weighed about 125 lb (56 kg), but by the 1870s it had been reduced to 46 lb (21 kg). The addition of ball bearings and pneumatic tires in the 1880s and of bicycle wheels in the 1890s established the present form, though there have been refinements. The driver's seat was lowered. When in 1903 the trotter Lou Dillon broke the two-minute mile barrier, his record was exceeded by only four horses through 1969. In the preceding 58 years the record had been successively lowered by half a minute. Lou Dillon's sulky weighed 25 lb (11.3 kg).
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