Polo club
That used to be one of my regular drinking haunts in Bexleyheath, yes I’m showing my age. Well, with the onset of age and remembering the only horses I ever saw in Catford belonged to the rag and bone man, I have in my adult years taken a keen interest in the ponies, in various formats, and been lucky enough to have been to a couple of polo matches previously.
Of course I don’t really understand it, but I am intuitive enough to realize that it is not easy sat upon a thoroughbred horse galloping at a hundred miles an hour trying to swat a small ball with a stick.
Sarasota Polo Club was founded in 1991, although polo on these Floridian ranches has much deeper roots. The Club sits on 140 acres on the west coast of Florida as part of the famed Lakewood Ranch master community and is one of 300 thriving Polo Clubs in the United States and today we went to witness the last day of the season, which only starts in January.
