COACHING DAYS AND WAYS 



it does not appear to have come to anything. The 

 Richmond Drag Club was founded in 1838, but it 

 did not survive for many years ; the members to the 

 number of fifteen or sixteen used to meet at Lord 

 Chesterfield's house. These were the principal clubs. 



Some of the amateur whips of a century ago 

 were addicted to coach matches. Here is the 

 account of such a race from the Sporting Magazine 

 of 1802:— 



* Mail Coach Match.— On Thursday, May 20th, 

 the London Mail, horsed by Mr. Laud, of the 

 New London Inn, Exeter, with four beautiful 

 grey horses, and driven by Mr. Cave Browne, of 

 the Inniskilling Dragoons, started (at the sound of 

 the bugle) from St. Sydwell's for a bet of Five 

 Hundred Guineas against the Plymouth Mail, 

 horsed by Mr. Phillipps, of the Hotel, with four 

 capital blacks, and driven by Mr. Chichester, of 

 Arlington House, which got the mail first to 

 the Post Office in Honiton. The bet was won 

 easy by Mr. Browne. A very great concourse 

 of people assembled on this occasion.' 



In 1811 Mr. George Seward undertook to drive 

 a four-in-hand fifteen miles in fifty minutes. He 



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