The Attributes of a Good Polo Pony



Speed, intelligence and agility by themselves, do not make a good polo pony. He must be clever. He must be able to dodge and swerve while going full speed, and to wheel and turn on the proverbial dime. Besides this, he must be able to follow the ball, and instinctively put his rider in a good position to hit it. He must be completely steady and unaffected by the waving mallets and yelling crowds. In addition, and no less important, he must have much courage, and not flinch from contact, sometimes violent, with another mount.







Sunday, January 25, 2009

Quick Read for the Polo Lover


The Maltese Cat by Rudyard Kipling
Short Story 48 pages
From the point of view of the Maltese Cat, a polo pony.
In the Maltese Cat, the reader is transported back in time to India, where thirty teams of the finest horses and their masters have gathered for the distinguished Upper India Free-For-All Cup.
A ragged band of twelve ponies, known as the Skidars' team, has worked up from the bottom of the ranks in the contest and now must face the Archangels, "the pink and pick of the polo ponies of Upper India."
The Maltese Cat (a polo pony), the captain of the Skidars' ponies, knows that what his team lacks in style they make up for in teamwork and heart. They are outnumbered two to one, and odds are against them. Even so, the brave Skidars and their masters ride on through injury and fatigue to victory.
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