Polo is one of the oldest and most misunderstood team sports in the world. To the newcomer it can look like organised chaos: eight riders on horses galloping at speeds of up to 35 mph, a small white ball, and long-handled mallets swinging at speed. In reality, polo is a game of precise rules, defined … Read more
Few sports are as instantly recognisable, or as widely misunderstood, as polo. To the newcomer it can look like an exclusive spectacle of galloping horses and swinging mallets. To the initiated it is one of the most demanding team sports in the world , a contact sport played at close to 35 miles per hour … Read more
Polo asks more of its equipment than almost any other sport. A player is riding a half-tonne animal at speed, swinging a long mallet with one hand, tracking a small ball across an outfield the size of nine football pitches, and doing it in close physical contact with three other riders doing exactly the same … Read more
Polo has a reputation problem. For a sport that anyone can try on a Saturday afternoon for roughly the price of a decent dinner, it carries an unusually heavy reputation for exclusivity , one that keeps a great many capable riders, and a great many curious non-riders, from ever booking a first lesson. The reality … Read more
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