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319:(New York) was established in 1875. They organized annual long distance drives, the first in 1878 between New York and Philadelphia, 98 miles each way. Other drives were organized to cities around New York state, as well as to Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont. The club's membership operated 46 drags, and the club itself owned the coach
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The FHC encountered difficulties in 1820, revived in 1822 with slightly different club rules, but only lasting until 1826. An 1820 joke went the rounds, of a person addressing a FHC member, saying "I hear that you men have broken up." To which, the reply was "No. We've broken down; the FHC had
351:(later to be named Beacon Park), and the South End Driving Park. The most famous of these clubs, the Metropolitan Driving Club, conducted races for several decades, until the rise in popularity of the motor car caused carriage driving to lose its appeal.
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formed several driving clubs (also called "gentlemen's driving clubs"), and so-called trotting associations, in the second half of the 19th century. They would race in three locations: the
Readville Race Course, the Riverside Riding Park in
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The (friendly) rival Four Horse Club was founded the year after the BDC, in April 1808, but did not last as long. It was founded because the membership of the BDC was limited to 25 people. Charles Buxton, the inventor of the
48:, becoming the Bedfont Driving Club with ease (since the initials remained the same), and met in the Black Dog public house. As a consequence it was also known by the informal name the Black and White Club.
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The Four Horse Club rules also had strict dictates about clothing for the drivers. They required a drab coat that reached down to one's ankles, decorated with large
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In fact, these were variants of a rhyme that had followed Onslow from his days as a "whip" long before the founding of the Four-In-Hand Club, where he had driven a
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with strings and rosettes, made of plush; and a hat that was at least 3.5 inch deep in the crown. The Club regularly drove as a group to
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horses. However, the final requirement was relaxed. Club members Sir
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Some scratch their panels, some their horses' knees —
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to keep on with." The modified rules called for a brown
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William; Cogswell, Edward E. (1914).
300:The Four-In-Hand Driving Club was founded in 1856.
952:Patroclus (September 1838). "Chaunt of Achilles".
244:No matter — dinner comes, when all are able
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126:What can little T. O. do?
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916:. Taylor & Francis.
873:Siegel, Paul D. (2002).
849:. Smith, Elder & Co.
667:. J.F. Taylor & Co.
586:The Gentleman's Magazine
128:Drive a phaeton and two.
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338:19th century popularity
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