Tandem Driving: To master this demanding technique is a real accomplishment

Supplemental Information for 10' Feburary Whip, The Renaissance of Tandem Driving by Jeffrey Westney

How did the tandem hitch
originate?
Although there is evidence
that driving one horse in
front of the other goes back to
the 12th century, it first became
popular as well as sociably correct
in the mid-1800s. The art of driving
two horses in single file was
perfected in 18th-century England
by the well-born aficionados of “riding
to the hounds” or the fox hunt. More

Here you'll find a link to a YouTube video that shows Jeffrey's driving his tandem through the German countryside.