10 Things You Didn't Know About Polo
Did you know....that Polo is a Persian game? Or that Prince Charles met his mistress at a Polo match? Well, now you do. And there's more where that came from!
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For your all your Bridgehampton small-talk needs, here are ten things you didn't know about the Hamptons' favorite sport:
- Polo is originally a Persian sport. The first games took place in a few centuries BC.
- Prince Charles met his mistress at a Polo match.
- Early Polo shirts introduced the button-down collar to fashion; Lewis Lacey invented the modern-day polo in 1920.Prince Charles met his mistress at a Polo match.
- Sultan Qutb-ud-din Aibak, the first Muslim Emperor of North India, died accidentally in 1210 playing polo. He ruled as an emperor for only four years.
- Irony at its finest: Calcutta, the poorest city in the world, is home to the world's oldest Polo club.
- Polo must be played right-handed.
- Tom Buchanan in The Great Gatsby is modeled after America's greatest polo player, Tommy Hitchcock, Jr.
- The horse may be the most popular vehicle, but really any will do (see: Elephant Polo).
- Just like volleyball, Beach Polo is gaining fans in Miami, Dubai and recently in the UK as well.
- Hunky Hamptons regular and Polo star Nic Roldan is captain of Prince Harry's charity team, Sentebale.
Well there you have it - ten things you didn't know (and probably didn't need to know) about Polo! We'll see out next Saturday.
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did you also know that; Unemployed eastern european whores day trip out to Bridge Hampton to crash the polo tent in search of a comp prosecco That more than half of the people in the polo tent are either in posession of a 1/16th share in the buggy woods or sleeping on the couch of a friend of a friend who has one The desperate reality show yentas and party crashing psychos who hang out there are the closest thing to any real celebrity within a mile of the place That the people you might expect to attend a polo match are exactly the people who wouldn't be caught dead at the Bridgehampton version, which was taken over by lowlives and club promoters about ten years ago