A CAA member in California was recently visiting Pennsylvania, where he found three interesting old photos, which I’ll share here over the next three posts.
This first photo is from the January 6, 1906, issue of Rider and Driver magazine.
The caption said, Prominent Ladies Who Drive Four-in-Hand: Mrs. Ralph Pulitzer, formerly Miss Frederica Webb, with her father, Dr. W. Seward Webb, beside her, in the parade of the Ladies’ Four-in-Hand Club; Miss Webb is a granddaughter of the late William H. Vanderbilt, and like all the members of the Vanderbilt family, ‘dearly loves a horse.’
The Slower Road 
August 22, 2014 at 5:06 pm
That just makes me feel incredibly proud to continue that time honored tradition- Ladies Driving Coaches!!!!!
August 26, 2014 at 11:48 am
What is a “cock horse boy”?
August 26, 2014 at 11:55 am
A cock horse was a single extra horse put on in the lead, in front of a team, to help in pulling a heavy load up a hill. Cock horses were always ridden, and sometimes even rented or borrowed for short distances. So the “cock horse boy” would be the small young man or boy in charge of that extra horse, and the one who would ride it.
August 29, 2014 at 10:15 am
Thanks!