Polo Ponies Play Wood Print

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Outdoor Polo Match
Middleburg VA
2011

https://destinationpolo.com/about-polo

Polo is considered to be one of the oldest team sports and was first played around 200 B.C. in Persia. This military game is a product of 1,000 years of breeding and training of the horse and has evolved into an organized world-wide sport. Today, the sport of polo is played in two formats: Arena and Outdoor. Although the concepts are similar, the playing surfaces and the rules are slightly different.

The Outdoor game is played on a much larger surface with dimension of 160 yards wide (boarded) and 300 yards long, which makes it ten times the size of an official arena or ten football fields. Arena boards encompass the arena and are normally six feet high, whereas Outdoor, the boards are only eleven inches in height. Both applications assist in keeping the ball in play. There are other differences such as there are four players Outdoor and three players in the Arena. The Outd...

Welcome to Dressage Design ~ our Equestrian division of JAMART Photography. I have loved horses my whole life. I had a room full of Breyer statues and my Dad would take me trail riding whenever he could afford it. I grasped every opportunity to be around horses and when I couldn't, I would draw them. Throughout High School and College I worked at several barns cleaning stalls, grooming and tacking up horses, just to afford riding lessons. Marriage, family and a job transfer distracted me for about ten years. In 1996, my husband, Joe, brought horses into my life with the gift of riding lessons for my 30th birthday. Sometimes I think he dreads that gift, because it has been all about horses since then. Our two beautiful daughters...