Today
Yesterday, I went on a Polo excursion to Hurlingham Polo Club in Buenos Aires 😀 Pretty big historical site as far as I’m concerned.. I mean it’s where everything started. The first polo field in Argentina for heaven’s sake!!! Man, I learned so much about Polo today.
So.. The English were the first to bring the sport to Argentina. It worked really well here and the English were in awe of how much flat land they had. It all seemed perfect. Football was also introduced to the country about the same time. Although it’s not the most popular, it’s just one of those things that’s Argentina. It’s like the meat and the tango you know, what’s Argentina without those? Or what’s Argentina without Polo?
Moving on.. one polo field is equivalent to the size of 6 football fields. THAT’S MASSIVE. With four players on each team, each player has about eight to twelve horses for a game! One hell of a demanding sport I’d say..
Here’s another picture that’s sort of relevant..
There’s a Polo ball right there! I thought it’d be wayyy heavier. But it’s not. This one’s all beat up and stuff but I bet it’d be in better shape if it were new.
I’m not entirely sure if I’m remembering this correctly, but the second most important polo tournament is held at Hurlingham and it’s where all the pros come play. Intense stuff right there! Anyhoo, we got to see the trophy for that tournament and here it is! It even had a cute little polo man on the head of the trophy 😀
As tiring as it was, today was a good day. It really was. All I’ve really taken away from this is Polo sounds awesome and like a lot of hard work. It seems like a really difficult sport and I should really start giving the players more credit. Maddd props to all them players out there.
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