THE-FOUR-IN-HAND CLUB IN HYDE PARK.

Evening Star, Issue 3602, 8 September 1874, Page 3

THE-FOUR-IN-HAND CLUB IN HYDE PARK.

On Wednesday afternoon, May 4, the Magazine near the Serpentine, Hyde Park, was she rendezvous for half London. The various term a began to stream in from all ides of the Park, until a muster of twentyHi ee was drawn up. “in column of fours.” '*’■ urteeu < i fifteen drags only had been expected, as ihe elder clubu rarely make sueh f- roug di.-p ay as their younger bretfaern of the Coaching Club. The Duke of Beauforte was on the right flank of the first section of fours ; he having kindly consented to perform the duties of Acting President, until the office should be filled by a successor to the lamented chief,, Mr Merritt. 7he Duke's coach is of the traditional color of the Somerset’s, dark blue. A team of well-put-together bays-good, neat, workmanlike, but not showy nags—and quiet well-made harness, devoid of extraneous ornament, were the leading characteristics of this equipage, the roof of which was honored by various members of the f* otnerset family. The Duke, though not po-sissiug quite the perfection of style of his father, is a good ® af ® w hip. Lord Sefton is a brilliant handler of the ribbons ; and Lord Cole has a certain cachet (it seems odd to employ a French term to an English art) which raises him above the common level, while Colonel AA hite with that enthusiasm for equine pastimes peculiar to his country, has succeeded iu pulling together a team of two roans and a couple of baj a which Anderson might in yam attempt to collect. Most of the Coaching Clubs were “about,” although not in the procession. Among them were Mr Edwards, four roans, nice horsfs; Colonel f°ur chesmrs, very useful ho.ses ; Mr Dutchman, four browns, yellow coach, ureful short-legged horses ; Colonel Aikman. Y.C.. Mr Mitchell, Captain Tortor, four chesuuts, good ; Major Rolleys, four bays, nice, useful hunting-lookingjhorses— no bearing reins ; Mr Wood, bay, gray, roan, and cfcesnut, good ; Captain Pinne. bays; Lord Carrington, four chesnuts, very nice team ; Mr Tiffany, two skew balds, and two roans showy, good steppers, too much tail, rather “ circus form Sir Clifford Constable, chesnuts, hideous light-brown coach; Major Stapleton, blacks and black brown, very handsome, showy horses; Captain Coote. one chosuut, one gray, two browns, very neat; Mr D. Murrieta, brown bays, very good, nice level horses well put together and driven ; Lord Paulett, browns, very nice indeed ; Major Jary and Captain Sandeman, both fine teams ; Mr Baird, «aron Alfred de Rothschild four browns, magnificent horse", grand steppeis, wortli L 1,200, but more like b.irouche thau coach horses. The question of “ bearing reins ” was so far settled, that most of the leading members of the club had, ky example, shown to the driving world their appreciation of the evil effects of this relic cf a bygone age. Major i ollevs was about the first to set the example, and it has now been largely followed.—* News of the World,’ May 31.