Category Archives: Polo

Polo Trivia 3

By Rajesh on September 29, 2006

Ask anyone who’s been to polo in Delhi- the best polo action, for some reason, happens at the far end .

What Jaipur Polo Ground needs, is this:

or this:

Images: 1. videoprojecteddisplays.com 2. videoscreens.net

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A polo teams consists of 4 players who play with ‘handicaps’ between -2 (beginner) to + 10 (highest level of proficiency). Combined total of all handicaps make the team ‘handicap’. A team playing with a lower/ weaker combined handicap would be credited, at start of play, a calculated number of goals to compensate for the… Read more »

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Polo Trivia 1

By Rajesh on August 22, 2006

The Delhi Polo season typically begins late October, however, for me the countdown has alredy begun.Some polo trivia to warm you up:

1. Did you know polo is perhaps the only game in world in which use of the left hand (active in play, holding the mallet) is forbidden!? The reason is simple – to… Read more »

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Horsing around is serious business – The Financial Express (2003)

By Rajesh on April 26, 2006

Horsing around is serious business

Unedited as ‘I’ wrote it – prefer it like this.
M.F. Hussain loves to paint them; Dr. Vijay Mallya is passionate about them; our Finance Minister doesn’t find it too ‘taxing’ to take an afternoon stroll to watch a ‘chukka’ or two. Horse aficionados all!
For thousands of years man… Read more »

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