TANDEM DRIVING 



often used for tandem driving, a purpose for which 

 they were by no means unsuitable, always provided 

 the road was fairly level. 



As a matter of course, when tandems became 

 numerous and drivers clever in handling them, 

 races against time came into fashion. Matches on 

 the road, whether trotting in saddle or driving, 

 were usually * against time ' for obvious reasons. 

 On April 14th 1819 the famous whip, Mr. Buxton, 

 backed himself to drive tandem without letting his 

 horses break their trot, from Hounslow to Hare 

 Hatch, distance twenty-four miles, in two hours. 

 His horses, however, were not well matched, and 

 * broke' before they had gone six miles. As break- 

 ing involved the penalty of turning the equipage 

 round and starting afresh, and breaks were frequent, 

 Mr. Buxton occupied over an hour in going ten 

 miles and gave up, forfeiting the hundred guineas 

 he had staked on the task. 



On 19th May 1824 a match was thus recorded in 

 the Sporting Magazine: — 



* Captain Swann undertook a tandem match from 

 Ilford, seven miles over a part of Epping Forest. 

 He engaged to drive 12 miles at a trot and to 



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