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Before Polo became known in the western culture, in Persia and
India, men and women of the royal court played the game. The
English upper classes learned to play polo in the 1800’s, and
made it popular with the wealthy in other parts of the world.
A polo player is part of a team and must ride with perfect control,
and respect the rules while swinging a mallet to drive
a ball toward a goal at the end of the field. Many agree that a
polo player is only as good as his horse. Polo ponies work hard
and tire quickly, so after each seven-minute playing period, the
players switch to fresh horses. Buying and caring for a pool of
highly skilled polo ponies is part of the expense of the game.
The Human Horse Sensing adventure in Polo
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