POLO
Online
Read our who’s
who of the English
highgoal season,
including Lyndon
Lea (right)
www.
ft.
com/poloFINANCIAL TIMES SPECIAL REPORT | Saturday July 23 2011
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com/ftreports
A
s the English polo season
reaches its climax, crowds
have been...
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POLO
Online
Read our who’s
who of the English
highgoal season,
including Lyndon
Lea (right)
www.
ft.
com/poloFINANCIAL TIMES SPECIAL REPORT | Saturday July 23 2011
twitter.
com/ftreports
A
s the English polo season
reaches its climax, crowds
have been enjoying some of
the most exciting and unpredictable matches for years.
Always a spectacle, the high-goal –
or top professional – season, which
culminated in the Veuve Clicquot
Gold Cup and this weekend’s Cartier
International at Guards Polo Club,
has been shaken up by rule changes
that many aficionados believe have
made the sport more dramatic.
Concerned about the ability of some
leading players to dominate matches,
the Hurlingham Polo Association, the
sport’s governing body, altered the
rule book to force more open play.
The changes – which were already
implemented in Argentina and the US
– have been credited with playing a
part in surprise results such as the
win by the French-funded Talandracas team in the Queen’s Cup where
the fa
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