trace-bearers

Updated: May 8, 2025

To enjoy such music, to know it at its best, you must leap in the traces, feel the swing of the poles, the pull of the whiffle-trees, the slap of the trace-bearers; and you must see the tangled street-traffic clear before you as if by the wave of a magician's wand.

Sewell Ford - Horses Nine: Stories of Harness and Saddle