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At the beginning of the century, Polo was played only 3 months in the year, so there were 10 months of offseason. British players had to go to Egypt in order to play their favorite sport. Three French polo players had the idea to
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Winston Churchill said : “A Polo handicap is your passeport to the world”. His shoulder would regularly dislocate, that’s why he strapped his arm to his side to play polo.
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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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During a polo tournament, if a polo player comes to the award ceremony without his boots, he can be immediately sanctioned. If the player does it again, he could be suspended from a match in the next tournament!
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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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The Kihikihi Club exists since 1892. The International Polo Day is an event which became a main feature of the Kihikihi Polo Club for 10 years. For a number of years Kihikihi challenged an overseas team but the New Zealand Polo
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It’s believed to be a 12-chukker match between Roslyn and Laddie Sanford’s Hurricanes at the old Meadow Brook club in New York. Pat Roark broke a 7-7 tie late in the twelfth period of a game that ran twice the length of
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The US Open Polo Championship, the most prestigious tournament in the United States, dates back to 1904 where it was first played at Meadowbrook Polo Club in Old Westbury, NY and has been played at the International Polo Club
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Not necessarily. The No. 1 and 4 positions are considered the best places to put the team’s weaker players, particularly the latter because it’s primarily a defensive role. (the No. 4, or Back position is certainly the least
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Born in 1956, as a child he followed his father in his love of horses, but as a son and grandson of army officers, his family could offer him no prospect of a polo career. He belongs to a generation for whom talent and
