Activities
There were regular events, dinners and annual parades throughMembership
Qualification for membership: "the ability to drive four horses with grace and skill". Driving four-in-hand requires the coachman to hold the reins of all four horses in one fist. Coaching was a very expensive pursuit and membership, at first restricted to fifty then thirty people at any one time, was limited to those owners and drivers of coaches drawn by four horses that had no involvement in racing, hunting or polo. It became difficult to keep a full membership and from 1925 members were allowed those associations.''Pioneer''
The club owned its own coach, ''Pioneer''. The general public could buy seats in members' coaches and be driven about by the club members. When it was pointed out the result was New York's aristocracy carried common citizens members responded that some of the English aristocracy had driven scheduled public services for some time.''Tally-ho''
One of the original Coaching Club coaches belonging to Kane was called ''Tally-ho''. It became so well known any coach-and-four was called a ''See also
* World Four-in-Hand Championships *Reference
:Online copies of ''The Carriage Journal'' published by The Carriage Association of America, accessed May 22nd, 2018External links