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.







Thursday, March 7, 2013

"A" is for ?

" The Wrong Horse" by William Murray is an odyssey through the American horse racing scene. It is part observation, and part memoir. In the chapter entitled '"Venus on Horseback", Mr Murray describes his experience with his horse crazy daughter. He writes: " It took me a while to warm up to it, mainly because, like most love affairs, the romance proved to be expensive. Horses eat almost all of the time and not only hay, which is relatively cheap. They munch on grains and guzzle noxious elixirs guaranteed to make their coats shine and keep them frisky. And they need equipment--bedding, boots, breeches, bridles, brooms, buckets, bits, and endless items from other letters of the alphabet, none of them cheap"  I had some fun coming up with my own silly lists of horse related words using letters in the alphabet. A horse health alphabet might start with "A is for ailments, arthritis, abscess, allergy and ascarids. From a horse crazy girl, or horse crazy adult like myself, I think of words like "A" is for awesome; "B" is for beautiful; "C" is for cute; "D" is for dreamy; "E" is for exciting or elegant; "F" is for freedom; "G" is for gorgeous; "H" is for handsome; "I" is for intelligent; "J" is for joy; "K" is for kind; ect, ect.   Notice the difference? What is your horse alphabet? What does it say about you and your special relationship with your equine companion? 

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