History

           Polo is a sport that has been enjoyed by equestrians for thousands of years and is recorded in the first historical record as having occurred around 600 B.C. between the Persians and the Turkomans, with the Turkomans winning the match.Shah Abbas the Great of Ispahan built a 300-yard field with goal posts 8-yards a part in the 16th century. The Moguls brought the game from Persia to the East sometime during the 16th century; British tea planters discovered polo during the 1850s while working in Manipur, along the Burmese border with India. Cultures from the Persians to the Japanese have enjoyed the sport, which exhibited fine horsemanship, skill, coordination and the ability to multitask. Watching the ball's placement on the field, and managing and maneuvering your horse at the same time took focus and concentration, as well as excellent horsemanship to suceed. Some of the oldest polo clubs were founded in India, as a sport of British military and tea planters. One of the oldest clubs still in existence today is the Calcutta Polo Club, founded in 1863.polo clubs were introduced in the US in 1877 and there are more than 250 active American clubs. A man named John Watson is credited with establishing the first official rules in the 1870s in India. Polo was an Olympic sport from 1900 to 1939. Today, more than 77 countries play polo.

The objective of an equestrian polo match is to move a ball from one end of the field or arena to the other. Your team scores if one of your players hits the ball through a set of goal posts. A polo match consists of 2 teams of 4 players, unless the match is indoors. In that case, each team would be limited to 3 players, according to Equestrian Life.