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Polo handicap
Polo handicap: player rating in goals from -2 to 10, created by H. L. Herbert in the late 1880s US polo; set nationally by AAP, HPA, USPA; sums set team tournament levels.
Polo in India
Polo in India, or Sagol Kangjei in Manipur, is the Indian tradition of equestrian polo. Modern polo was codified here: Calcutta Polo Club (1862) is the world's oldest surviving club, and the Indian Polo Association (1892) governs the sport.
Polo in Italy
Polo in Italy is a small but growing equestrian sport with about fifteen clubs under FISE and a national team holding three men's European titles.
Polo Instructors and Players Association
Polo Instructors and Players Association (PIPA), founded 2011 in Vienna, is an international association representing polo players and trainers, licensing instructors, and organizing snow and beach polo world cup tours with A Quechua World of Polo.
Polocrosse
Polocrosse is a mounted team ball sport combining polo and lacrosse, where riders catch, carry, and throw a rubber ball with a netted stick instead of a mallet.
R. S. Sodhi
R. S. Sodhi: Colonel Ravinder Singh "Pickles" Sodhi (born 1943, Rawalpindi), Indian Army officer of the 61st Cavalry and polo player, Arjuna Award 1983; distinct from Amul dairy executive Rupinder Singh Sodhi.
Real Club de Polo de Barcelona
The Real Club de Polo de Barcelona is a private multi-sport club on the Avenida Diagonal, founded in 1897, operating polo, equestrian, tennis, hockey, and padel disciplines.
Richard J. Mecredy
Richard J. Mecredy (1861-1924), also spelled McCready, Irish champion cyclist and editor of the Irish Cyclist who invented bicycle polo in 1891; first match at The Scalp, Co. Wicklow, and demonstration sport at the 1908 London Olympics.
Roehampton Club
Roehampton Club: private members' multi-sports club in Roehampton, south-west London; founded 1901 as a Miller brothers officers' polo club, opened 1902 on 57 acres; former home of the Roehampton Cup, now 5,100-member club with golf, tennis, squash, croquet.
Segway polo
Segway polo, also called Segway HT polo, is a team sport on Segways using mallets and a ball, originating in Silicon Valley around 2003; its world championship is the Woz Challenge Cup under ISPA rules.
Shandur Polo Ground
Shandur Polo Ground, on Shandur Pass (about 3,700 m) between Gilgit-Baltistan and Chitral, Pakistan, is the world's highest polo ground; built in 1936 by Evelyn Hey Cobb, it hosts the annual freestyle Shandur Polo Festival.
Snow polo
Snow polo is a winter variant of polo played on compacted snow or frozen lakes, using a larger inflatable ball; its flagship event is the Snow Polo World Cup St. Moritz, first held in 1985.
U.S. Open Polo Championship
U.S. Open Polo Championship, American polo's premier title, founded 1904 at Van Cortlandt Park, New York; held each April at 22 goals at the USPA National Polo Center, Wellington, Florida, finale of the high-goal season; 2024 winner La Dolfina, 2026 winner Pilot.
United States Polo Association
United States Polo Association (USPA), founded 1890 as The Polo Association, is the national governing body of polo in the United States, based at the National Polo Center in Wellington, Florida, with over 275 clubs and the U.S. Polo Assn. licensed brand.
World Polo Championship
FIP World Polo Championship, the Federation of International Polo's premier national-team polo tournament since 1987, played in a 10 to 14 goal handicap format; Argentina has five titles and Spain is the 2022 champion.
Yak polo
Yak polo, or yak polo (yak-back polo), is polo played on yaks instead of horses, in Broghil, Chitral, Pakistan, and at Mongolian yak festivals; six-player freestyle format, halves of 20-30 minutes.