United States Polo Association
The United States Polo Association (USPA) is the national governing body for the sport of polo in the United States.
James Gordon Bennett Jr.
From left: Louis Ezekiel Stoddard, Thomas Hitchcock Jr., James Watson Webb Sr. and Devereaux Milburn in 1921 at the Meadowbrook Polo Club for the International Polo Cup
Polo is a ball game that is played on horseback, a traditional field sport and one of the world's oldest known team sports. The game is played by two opposing teams with the objective of scoring using a long-handled wooden mallet to hit a small hard ball through the opposing team's goal. Each team has four mounted riders, and the game usually lasts one to two hours, divided into periods called chukkas or chukkers.
Players playing polo
A Persian miniature from the poem Guy-o Chawgân ("the Ball and the Polo-mallet") during the Safavid dynasty of Persia, showing courtiers on horseback playing polo, 1546 CE
Naqsh-e Jahan Square in Isfahan, Iran, is the site of a medieval royal polo field
Statue of polo player in Gilgit, Pakistan