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Arena polo
Arena polo is the enclosed-arena, three-players-per-side variant of polo, played on dirt or sand with boards in play and a larger, softer ball than outdoors.
Auto polo
Auto polo: an early-20th-century American motorsport adapting equestrian polo, with driver-and-malletman crews in cars. Invented by Joshua Crane Jr. in 1902, revived by Ralph Hankinson in 1911, notorious for crashes, extinct by the Great Depression.
Beach polo
Beach polo, a sand-based variant of arena polo, is played three-a-side on horseback with an inflatable ball and boards; born in Dubai in 2004 after Mark Selway's 2002 Irish tournaments, with events in Dubai, Sandbanks, and Miami.
Bennie Gutierrez
Bennie Gutierrez (Benito T. Gutierrez, 1935-2024), American professional polo player, 8-goaler, 1972 U.S. Open winner, 1969 Cup of the Americas USA team member, Polo Hall of Fame 2003, USPA first Chief Umpire, model for the original Polo Ralph Lauren logo.
Boy Capel
Arthur Edward "Boy" Capel (1881–1919), English businessman, shipping magnate, and polo player; lover and financier of Coco Chanel, funding her rue Cambon, Deauville, and Biarritz houses; died in a 1919 car crash, leaving her £40,000.
Calcutta Polo Club
Calcutta Polo Club, Kolkata, founded 1862 by Robert Stewart and J. F. Sherer; world's oldest polo club, home of the first modern polo rule book and the Ezra Cup (1880).
Campeonato Argentino Abierto de Polo
Campeonato Argentino Abierto de Polo (Argentine Open, Abierto de Palermo): annual Buenos Aires club polo tournament founded 1893, played at Palermo's Campo Argentino de Polo since 1923, closing leg of the Triple Crown, 8 chukkers, teams of 28-40 goals.
Campo Argentino de Polo
Campo Argentino de Polo, the "Cathedral of Polo," is a 1928 polo stadium in Palermo, Buenos Aires, home of the Argentine Open, Triple Crown finale, with about 30,000 capacity.
Coronel Suárez Polo Club
The Coronel Suárez Polo Club is an Argentine polo club founded in the late 1920s in Coronel Suárez, Buenos Aires Province, and the winningest team in Argentine Open history.
Cowboy polo
Cowboy polo is a form of arena polo played almost exclusively in the American West, with five riders per team instead of four, using a red rubber medicine ball.
Elephant polo
Elephant polo, a polo variant played on elephants with long mallets on a shortened pitch, founded 1982 in Nepal by Jim Edwards and James Manclark under WEPA; main tournaments ended 2017-2018 after welfare criticism.
Ellerstina
Ellerstina is an Argentine high-goal polo team founded in 1992 by Gonzalo Pieres and Kerry Packer, with 6 Argentine Open titles and a famous rivalry with La Dolfina.
Empire Polo Club
Empire Polo Club, Indio, California polo club founded 1987 by Alexander Haagen III; former major West Coast polo venue and since 1999 home of Coachella and Stagecoach festivals, leased to Goldenvoice in 2021.
Enrique Padilla
Enrique Padilla names two Olympic athletes: an Argentine polo player (born 12 June 1890) who won 1924 Paris polo gold, Argentina's first Olympic gold, and a Mexican modern pentathlete (born 23 August 1934) who placed 36th individual, 11th team at Tokyo 1964.
George Miller
George Arthur Miller (1867–1935), British polo player, not the baseball catcher or the runner George Mills; won 1908 Olympic polo gold with Roehampton alongside brother Charles, six Hurlingham Champion Cups, England Westchester Cup captain 1902.
George Spencer-Churchill, Marquess of Blandford
George John Godolphin Spencer-Churchill, Marquess of Blandford (born 1992), British aristocrat and polo player, heir apparent to the 12th Duke of Marlborough and Blenheim Palace; married Camilla Thorp in 2018; son and heir Orlando born 2026.
Ham Polo Club
Ham Polo Club, founded 1926 as Ham Common Polo Club, is London's last remaining polo club, on 23 acres beside Richmond Park and Ham House; revived 1946 by Billy Walsh, centenary season 2026.
Hardcourt bike polo
Hardcourt bike polo: team cycling ball sport born among Seattle bike messengers in the late 1990s, played 3v3 on paved courts with mallets, governed in North America by NAH since 2010, distinct from grass cycle polo.
Hobby horse polo
Hobby horse polo (Steckenpferdpolo) is a polo variant played on foot riding hobby horses, hitting a ball with a mallet into goals. Documented in German club tournaments, scout programs, and steampunk conventions; hobby horsing originates in Finland.
Hurlingham Club (Argentina)
Hurlingham Club (Argentina), founded 1888 by the British community under John Ravenscroft, is a historic Buenos Aires sports club, home of the Hurlingham Open polo tournament and the Lewis Lacey field, second leg of the Argentine Triple Crown.
Hurlingham Park
Hurlingham Park, a 7.95-hectare public park in Fulham, London, opened in 1951 on the Hurlingham Club's former No. 1 polo field; home of British polo until 1939 and now host of Chestertons Polo in the Park.
International Polo Cup
International Polo Cup, also Westchester Cup, historic US vs England polo trophy first played 1886 at Newport, Rhode Island; Tiffany silver cup, England won first series, USA leads 10 wins in 15 contests.
Kihikihi Polo Club
The Kihikihi Polo Club is a New Zealand polo club based at Kihikihi Domain in the Waikato, founded in 1892 and one of the oldest polo clubs in the Waikato.
La Dolfina
La Dolfina is an Argentine high-handicap polo team founded by Adolfo Cambiaso in Cañuelas, known for winning three consecutive Argentine Triple Crowns from 2013 to 2015.
Museum of Polo and Hall of Fame
The Museum of Polo and Hall of Fame is the world's only polo museum, in Lake Worth, Florida, preserving polo history and honoring its greatest players and horses.
Oxford University Polo Club
The Oxford University Polo Club, founded in 1874 by Oxford undergraduates, is the University of Oxford's polo club, whose annual Varsity Match against Cambridge, first played in 1878, is among polo's oldest fixtures.
Padmanabh Singh (पद्मनाभ सिंह)
Padmanabh Singh (पद्मनाभ सिंह), familiarly "Pacho", is the titular Maharaja of Jaipur and an international polo player who became India's youngest Polo World Cup player at 18.
PIPA Snow Polo World Cup Tour
PIPA Snow Polo World Cup Tour: winter snow polo circuit founded by Reto Gaudenzi at St. Moritz in 1985, with flagship events at St. Moritz and Kitzbühel; four-player teams, inflatable ball, high-goal handicaps up to 16.
Polo at the Summer Olympics
Polo at the Summer Olympics: men's team equestrian sport contested in 1900, 1908, 1920, 1924, and 1936, then discontinued. Great Britain leads with 3 golds; Argentina won 1924 and 1936; FIP seeks reinstatement.
Polo dynasties and playing families
Polo dynasties and playing families describes Argentine polo families, including the Heguys of Indios Chapaleufú, the Novillo Astradas of La Aguada, and the Pieres of Ellerstina.