PONIES 



For a description of these ponies and all connected with the 

 game, the reader should apply to the Secretary of the Polo 

 Pony Society. 



Long muscular shoulders, and a vertically carried neck, 

 low withers, small ears, broad hock and knee joints, and " clean " 

 legs, with good sound feet, are indispensable. A polo pony 

 must have the best of conformation about the shoulders, owing 

 to the bending and twisting movements that he is constantly 

 required to perform. Further, he must be able to get his hocks 

 well under him for quick turning. Polo ponies do differ 

 considerably in their type, but this does not appear to make 

 much difference, provided the animal has been well schooled to 

 the game and his rider is equally at home. 



Height, 14.2 hands : India, not above 13.3 hands. 



POLO PONY BREEDING. 



To Colonel Henriques (Mursley Stud) of Mursley Hall, 

 W'inslow, Bucks, I am indebted for the following : — 



Various causes — unnecessary here to enumerate — have in 

 the last few years rapidly developed the demand for polo ponies, 

 and raised the breeding of riding ponies to the level of national 

 importance. The polo pony has very properly been made the 

 figure-head of pony breeders, as the embodiment of the highest 

 type of riding pony, requiring every excellence of form, power, 

 quahty, and temperament. The pony breeder in this sense is a 

 very recent product, and it is now far too soon to prognosticate 

 on the various theories and systems followed by them. That 

 very valuable work has already been done in their stud farms 

 can be readily conceded, and the Polo Pony Society, called into 



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