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.







Friday, February 22, 2013

Hot Stuff

It had come to my attention that someone with 4 legs has been chewing on the fencing in one of the paddocks. After watching carefully for a couple of days I saw that it was C'est Bonne. She is not chewing her stall down, but is limiting the behavior to the fencing. I had just picked up grain and supplies from the feed store, and did not want to drive there again just to buy something to paint on the fence boards to deter the chewing. What tastes awful??? Hot sauce--there was an unopened bottle in my kitchen cabinet. This was splashed on the tops of the chewed boards. It looks like something has been bleeding, especially on the snow below the boards, but it has worked. So for 99 cents I have saved the fencing--at least what I can easily see.
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