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Tuesday 18 May 2010 9:16 pm
FOR a game that’s nearly 3,000 years old, polo has certainly kept up with the times. Last year’s MINT Polo in the Park event at Hurlingham attracted a crowd of 24,000 and a TV audience of more than two million viewers, making it the most watched polo match ever.
The first recorded game took place in 600BC between the Turkomans and Persians (the Turkomans won, since you ask) – polo was then brought to India by the Moghuls. In the 1850s, British tea planters discovered it in Manipur on the Burmese border with India and thus began the world’s first polo club at Silchar, west of Manipur.
Flash forward to the grandstands of Hurlingham Park, where raucous crowds swig Pimms and champers as glossy ponies and their tough, stick-swinging riders charge around the green. This isn’t just any big day out at the polo, it’s the World Polo Series, with teams from London, New York (sponsored by City A.M.), Moscow, Barbados, Geneva, Milan, Durban and Sydney competing.
This is only the second time in 70 years that the World Series has been played at Hurlingham. The organisers are keen to bring polo back to…