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Polo is a team sport played on horseback in which the objective is to score goals against an opposing team. Players score by driving a small white plastic or wooden ball into the opposing team's goal using a long-handled mallet. The traditional sport of polo is played at speed on a large grass field up to 300 yards in length, and each polo team consists of four riders and their mounts.

The playing field is 300 yards long by 160 yards wide, the approximate area of nine American football fields. The playing field is carefully maintained with closely mowed turf providing a safe, fast playing surface. Goals are posts which are set eight yards apart, centered at each end of the field. The surface of a polo field requires careful and constant grounds maintenance to keep the surface in good playing condition. During half-time of a match, spectators are invited to go onto the field to participate in a polo tradition called "divot stamping", which has developed to not only help replace the mounds of earth (divots) that are torn up by the horses' hooves, but to afford spectators the opportunity to walk about and socialize.

The 2010 Polo in the Park promises even greater excitement, action and drama for superb hospitality in central London. The Polo in the Park tournament is held at Hurlingham Park, South West London, culminating in the final on Saturday 6 June. Get your Polo In the Park Tickets from Sold Out Ticket Market at nominal rates.

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Polo - History

A game first played in Persia-Iran at dates given from the 5th century BC, or much earlier, to the 1st century AD and originated there. Polo was at first a training game for cavalry units, usually the king's guard or other elite troops. To the warlike tribesmen, who played it with as many as 100 to a side, it was a miniature battle.In time polo became an Iranian national sport played extensively by the nobility. Women as well as men played the game, as indicated by references to the queen and her ladies engaging King Khosrow II Parviz and his courtiers in the 6th century AD. Certainly Persian literature and art give us the richest accounts of polo in antiquity. Ferdowsi, the famed Iranian poet-historian, gives a number of accounts of royal polo tournaments in his 9th century epic, Shahnameh (the Epic of Kings). In the earliest account, Ferdowsi romanticizes an international match between Turanian force and the followers of Siyâvash, a legendary Iranian prince from the earliest centuries of the Empire; the poet is eloquent in his praise of Siyâvash's skills on the polo field. Ferdowsi also tells of Emperor Shapur II of the Sassanid dynasty of the 4th century who learned to play polo when he was only seven years old.

Later on Polo was passed from Persia to other parts of Asia including the Indian subcontinent and China, where it was very popular during the Tang Dynasty and frequently depicted in paintings and statues. Valuable for training cavalry, the game was played from Constantinople to Japan by the Middle Ages. Known in the East as the Game of Kings. The name polo is said to have been derived from the Tibetan word "pulu", meaning ball. Old polo field in Imphal, Manipur Tang Dynasty Chinese courtiers on horseback playing a game of polo, AD 706.

The modern game of polo, though formalized and popularized by the British, is derived from Manipur (now a state in India) who played the game known as 'Sagol Kangjei', 'Kanjai-bazee', or 'Pulu'. It was the anglicised form of the latter, referring to the wooden ball which was used, that was adopted by the sport in its slow spread to the west. The first polo club was established in the town of Silchar in Assam, India, in 1834.





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Polo In The Park - Introduction

Polo in the Park is an exciting and innovative polo event that arrived in style to Central London during the summer of 2009. Combing power and passion with guts and glamour with over 25,000 spectators, The 2010 Polo in the Park promises even greater excitement, action and drama for superb hospitality in central London.

The Polo in the Park tournament is held at Hurlingham Park, South West London, over 2 days, culminating in the final on Saturday 6 June. Spectators will be treated to some outstanding polo matches over the course of the event, as a minimum of eight teams, from iconic teams across the world, battling it out to become Polo in the Park Champions.

For the first time in over 70 years, Polo will once again return to Hurlingham Park, Fulham. Polo in the Park presents a new and exciting opportunity to entertain guests in London. Polo in the Park will be the first of a series of intercity polo tournaments in major cities and seeks to bring polo to heart of cities. There will be some new rules and additions to make this tournament faster and more exciting for TV and event spectators.

The Hurlingham Club, home to Polo in the Park, is set in 42 acres of magnificent grounds. Just minutes from London's Kings Road, The Hurlingham Club provides superior entertaining at Polo in the Park. Corporate Hospitality guests will enjoy outstanding hospitality at The Hurlingham Club before walking across to Hurlingham Park where guests can watch the Polo.



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