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From Hunting To Polo: A Missing Link

How hunters took to playing polo

13th August 2018

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From Hunting To Polo: A Missing Link

The discovery of polo was nothing like a bunch of Englishmen suddenly finding a new way to put the horse in playing hockey on some lull evening in the barely penetrable corners of Colonial India. Horses were put to use in exciting sports other than polo during the colonial times just before the Englishmen would come to leave these sports in favor of what had then been a newcomer game-Polo. These horse-based sports were largely rooted in the ancient practice of hunting.



Fox hunting, a game considered worthy of training men to stay hardy and gallant attracted a huge number of players in the colonial era. So much so was the participation that the newsdaily The Outlook published in 1908 claimed that if a background check is performed on polo players, it will be revealed that a considerable number of them are fox-hunters.John Watson who is known as the father of English polo participated in fox hunting exercise as regularly as in polo.
 

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Anothing group of horsemen who got into playing polo came from what was yet another favorite pastime of the young and thrill loving persons, it was the sport of Pig sticking. Pig Sticking depended on the agility and swiftness of the horses and the impeccable combination of strength, balance, handling and moving a spear on horseback and the perfect hand-eye coordination which is a characteristic mark of polo.

 


 

 

 

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Moray Browns famous “Shikar (hunting) Sketches captures these fascinating pastimes which slowly converged into polo. Moray Brown eventually became the first authoritative writer on polo.

 


 

 

 



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