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Stood that they are most expensive articles. 

 Polo ponies cost sums far greater than I could 

 think of giving." To this I reply, quite true. 

 Certain ponies are sold at high prices, but then 

 they are the most accomplished of their kind, 

 eood-lookinor, well-mannered, and fast, and 

 above all, trained in the game to perfection 

 by such men as the Messrs. Miller, who make 

 a business of schooling ponies. These animals 

 are the pick of their class, but many good 

 ponies untrained to polo can still be bought 

 for moderate sums. In fact, they are not 

 worth more than ordinary ride and drive 

 ponies of a good class. No one would pay 

 a fancy price for a pony that did not know 

 its business, because it is very likely that it 

 might never do so. A very large number 

 of ponies never come to much good at polo. 

 Either they are deficient in pace or temper, or 

 some one or other of the manifold qualifications 

 a polo pony must have. It is evident that 

 there is only one way for a would-be polo 

 player to mount himself at a reasonable price. 

 He must look out for young ponies and train 

 them to the game. A man with some ex- 

 perience of horses, who is something of a 

 judge of young stock, and owns a little grass 

 land, would do well to buy some well-bred 

 youngsters two or three years old. Ponies 



