COACHING DAYS AND WAYS 



to spare. The horses used in this match were both 

 extraordinary trotters : the wheeler, Tommy, had 

 covered 20 miles in 1 hour 18 minutes two months 

 earlier, and the leader, Gustavus, twenty-four years 

 old, had done his 20 miles in 1 hour 14 minutes. 



Though not a tandem performance in the strict 

 sense of the term, Mr. Thanes' feat on 12th July 

 1819 is worth mention. He undertook *to drive 

 three horses in a gig, tandem fashion, eleven miles 

 within the hour on the trot, and to turn if either 

 horse broke.* Fortunately none of the three did 

 break, and he did the eleven miles, on the road 

 near Maidenhead, with three minutes to spare. 



Tandem driving seems to have gone out of 

 fashion to a certain extent about 1840, though 

 some young men * still delighted in it.' The re- 

 establishment of the Tandem Club, soon after the 

 close of the Crimean War, marked a revival which 

 made itself felt at Cambridge ; for on 22nd February 

 1866 the Senate passed another edict, this time 

 forbidding livery-stable keepers to let out on hire 

 tandems or four-in-hands to undergraduates. This 

 was confirmed in 1870. 



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