>Lou Holtz (legendary Notre Dame football coach) was on the show January
>28th/97 and told the story of the man with the large farm cart that needed
>to be pulled by his one horse. Needing to motivate the horse to maximum
>ability, he called out to the horse "....on Sandy", and snaped his horse
>whip in the air; horse doesn't move. Next he calls out "...on Daisy",
>snaps his whip in the air, again, horse doesn't move. Tries "...on
>Beauty", snaps the whip...nothing. Next the man calls out "...on Dusty",
>snaps the whip, horse starts pulling the cart. A guy watching all this
>goes up to the farmer and says, "if you knew the horse's name, why didn't
>you call that one out first?" 
>Reply: "Dusty's blind; if she thought she
>had to pull that cart all by herself, we would've never got going."