Here, dear reader and member of the Nickawampus Polo Club, is the complete Polo kit, two world-class horses and a Bentley. While the Bentley was easy enough to drive, neither horse, the bay gelding descended from Czar, a pre-eminent line of French race horses, featured in these pages in “Mutt’s Big Race,” nor the white mare, a granddaughter of Alfred Vanderbilt’s great Native Dancer, was really rideable, not in the stop and go of a polo chukker. A previous owner had applied so much pressure that both were given to explosive bursts of speed, often when unasked for. So, chalk one up to experience. Alas, we loved them, and donated them to the Polo program at Oregon State, where the arena format somewhat contained them and the young, daring college kids had a great time on such amazing mounts.
The field is that of Polo Puro in Conquistador, and the bloke holding the horses is yours truly, the author and proprietor of Nickawampus Polo Club. Not every sally is successful, in this or any other realm, as Don Quixote repeatedly tells us, but a certain heft begins to build, and one day you realize, “I’m a polo player.” May it happen to you.
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5 responses to “Polo Means Bentleys”
Beautiful photos of even more beautiful horses.
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Beauty is as beauty does, not least with horses. But you find a way to get something out of what are, essentially, rescue animals. Where have they got to go? Try it. You’ll see. Plus a little glam, no, wait, a lot of glam, for you!
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Polo means around the world –
as in Marco, coordinated summation of order, beauty and
rhythmical motion.
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Dave, I loved “pugnabamos,” which proves that Mr. ________ did a better job than you or he thought. Retroactive Valedictorian, indeed!
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Mr. McCleery , Dartmouth Cigarette hanging in the corner of his mouth at all times. Carried a yd stick (prowling around the classquestioning us for what we didn’t know and “Kramer, your Father must call you Moon, your not bright enough to be called Son.” “Kramer, you must have been born in Marblehead, Massachusetts ”
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