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I was in my late teens when I set my heart on rounding out my education at Oxford University before, as I then imagined, I returned to the family sheep farm. Why would a teenage Australian farm boy want to go to Oxford? Let us
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Medieval art from the golden age of Imperial China Be it poetry, artworks or surviving polo grounds, everything points to imperial Persia, circa 500 B.C., as the genesis of polo, a court pleasure of the nobility and, as with
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Those of us in love with the English language, among whom I count myself, are indebted to English author L.P. Hartley for the celebrated opening sentence of his 1953 novel, The Go-Between: “The past is another country; they
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Polo in Ireland is to Argentine polo what a catapult is to a cruise missile. Let the numbers speak for themselves. Argentina has 180 affiliated clubs and nearly 2,000 registered players, with perhaps 1,000 others unregistered. A
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Founded by Royal Horse Guards officers in 1919, Buck’s Club in London’s West End, enjoys a footnote in history for its celebrated champagne-and-orange cocktail, Buck’s Fizz. Along with steeple-chasing,
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(…) By the 1870s British cavalry regiments were drafting the rules of modern polo. (The marquess) Curson (of Kedleston, Viceroy of India 1859-1925) feared the hill-tribe version would eventually be “anglicized out of all
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The polo shirt creation dates back from the 19th century, when British army regiments were playing polo in chic, plain and formal military clothing. The use of a scarf crossing the chest was to distinguish one team from the
