As lavMan pointed out the ATR doesn't take a lot of power to hustle. It's easy to ride the brakes the entire taxi, especially with a respectable tailwind.

The tail stand is just that, a tail stand. The SAAB had one too. It is supposed to be removed by the ramp crew prior to departure and show it to BOTH crew members but there have been incidents of some outstations having two tail stands and showing one of them to the crew while the other is still attached to the aircraft. When I was on the airplane I would make a mental note of the color of the tail stand since stations were know to have multiples stands in different colors.