Share As we are gearing up to “save” the development of polo players in America, has anyone done the math on that prospect? Do you realize that if the number of American players rated at 5-goals or above represent only 11% of the high goal ranks. More importantly, if you removed all of the foreign [...]

Share That’s the bottom line.  Forget the fact that they operate no legitimate national association of their own (only a creation that would allow them to compete in the FIP) or that they rely upon the USPA for handicaps and rules.  Forget that a number of Canadians have served, and continue to serve on many [...]

Share Go to NPL’s Web Site and you will be startled by the opening four notes of Monday Night Football. You will be told that the National Polo League is identical to the structure of the NFL (National Football League), but you won’t be told that there are no stadiums to house each of the seven [...]

Share This post has been offered by a reader of ths blog: Clubs must keep established players. But too many players not only drop out, they drop out with a bad taste in their mouths. Established players are polo?s history. Their presence creates a richness and atmosphere that would otherwise be lacking. On a more [...]

Share Most of us received a letter from the PTF pleading for contributions so that it wouldn’t have to trim its (bloated) staff, but apparently not enough of you felt the compulsion to support a PTF staff that has grown tenfold over the same time period that our membership had been decreasing in size. Well, [...]

Share From time to time I will post a comment from a reader.  This is one of those times.  Thank you Polo Mafia: Rumor on the exercise track is that there has been a new Board of Directors elected at Eldorado PC. What does this mean for the Club? It does conjure up a few [...]

Share It really is about time you asked questions and held your “leaders” accountable for the decisions they make (or in many cases don’t make).  It is time you looked into the budget of the USPA, it is time you examined the decisions that are being made regarding the investment of USPA monies into flawed [...]

Share For years George Alexander served as the Circuit Governor of the Central Circuit of the United States Polo Association as we watched the level of play slowly erode and important club after important club shut down. He managed to place himself on committee after committee with no positive discernable results as polo attempted to [...]

Share I may be naïve in assuming that the USPA is being operated professionally, but I can’t help but wonder why the “new leadership” has made no major moves since assuming their offices. It may be difficult for them to grasp the concept that against all logic and every concept of democracy, the Association’s Constitution [...]

Share I’m tired or reading about how much the PTF does for polo, about how many kids are learning the game and about how its clinics are reaching across the nation (Hawaii included) with one of the largest polo facilities in the country is in trouble. We seem to have “experts” at the helm when [...]