Related article: Society has to its credit is that
the right sort of mare can be and
has been produced. Of these,
Shy Lass, Confidential and Oh
My, are standing examples. The
problem still to be solved is that
of the stallions. There are two
now which will be at the service
of breeders. There is Rosewater,
the champion pony, Lord Polo
and Sandiway both are smart
ponies, and should suit long-
reachy mares nearly clean bred.
The great difficulty which hitherto
has' hindered real progress in polo
pony breeding has been the want
of permanence in the efforts made.
It would be a good thing if the
Polo Pony Society would form a
small experimental stud farm
which would enable us to pass
from theory to practice and de-
termine the value of the various
strains of pony blood and of in-
breeding, in order to keep down
the size, and whether Arab blood
should be introduced and in what
proportion. It would be particu-
larly interesting to note which of
the English breeds of ponies the
Society has taken under its wing
might be utilised with best advan-
tage to form a foundation stock
from which to develop by judicious
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selection and out crosses the polo
pony of the future. In the mean-
time, we shall have to fill up the
gaps in the stalls of our polo pony
stables with some of the Ameri-
cans, which can, without doubt,
be imported at a reasonable profit.
These reflections will not be
without some advantage or at-
traction to those players, present
or future, who are wondering
how to mount themselves. On
the question as to the supply of
good ponies at a reasonable price
the future of the game depends.
But from this topic it is time
we turned to the actual play
which is promised us. The
Wimbledon and Crystal Palace
Clubs will open their gates early
in the season and their pro-
grammes will doubtless come to
hand in time. Under the man-
agement of Mr. T. Drybrough
and Captain F. Herbert they
should be able to arrange for
some good matches, yet no
new clubs can hope to com-
pete with the great contests
of the season — the Inter -Regi-
mental and Champion Cup at
Hurlingham, the Hunt Cup and
Subaltern's Tournament at Rane-
lagh, and the County Polo Asso-
ciation's Cup, which, later in the
season will be a great draw for
some one of our county clubs.
The two preliminary programmes Proventil Hfa Inhaler Cost
issued by Hurlingham and Rane-
lagh with friendly rivalry (vide
Field of March nth) are full of
interesting items and promise
much interesting play. Never-
theless, it is to be hoped that in
their desire to provide attractive
matches for the spectators the
managers will not forget the in-
terests of the second-class players
which are the interests of polo,
and therefore of the clubs them-
selves. No one who really cares
for polo wishes to see the same
set of players in various combina-
tions perpetually. A new player
of promise is always an object of
very great interest, and unless the
managers give these players, who
are as yet unknown, sufficient
chance, how can their capacities
be known ? The managers at
Ranelagh have always been alive
to the necessity for the encourage-
ment of new and comparatively
inexperienced players. The Gen-
eral Committee of the Hurling-
ham Club have, during the past
autumn, given us an evidence of
the importance they attach to
polo. Captain Egerton Greene
and Mr. St. Quintin are both
well-known to the polo men at
large and are both experienced as
players, and thus the General
Manager, as well as the polo
Secretary, will have the interests
of the game at heart. The
Hurlingham Committee, however,
would certainly command more
confidence if they adopted the
now almost universal system of
retirement by rotation so as to
receive an influx of new blood
and new ideas. The club has to
legislate for polo everywhere, an'l
therefore the constitution of tiieir
committee has an importance
which belongs to that of no other
club, and which concerns a
larger circle than their own
members.
We wish the new management
every success, nor do we doubt
that they will have it. May we
venture to suggest as a motto for
the coming season, " Sweet are
the uses of advertisement," to
those, at all events, who wish to
know what Polo is corning on at
the club. The news, that the
somewhat burning question of
the number of ponies to be kept
at the club by any one member in
to be considered, is satisfactory,
Ranelagh has one advantage
over Huningham in the room for
expansion which their unrivallel
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situation, and the enterprise with
which they have taken advantage
of it, give them. It is the peculiar
credit of the club that although
the list has long since been so full
as to make the attraction of new
members no important considera-
tion, yet they have never ceased
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those who belong to the club. Generic Proventil
The addition of a practice ground,
so much needed and desired by
all London polo players, is a great
boon, and will be of permanent
benefit to the game as well as to
the club. It is not possible to
play polo really well without much
and constant practice. The im-
provement to the second ground
has been very great, part of Purchase Proventil Online the
turf having been taken up, and
clay laid down instead of gravel.
If we turn to the present state
of the game itself we shall see
that some changes are still needed
in the rules. Mr. Drybrough,
in his careful analysis of the laws
of polo, has incidentally shown
what a considerable divergence of
practice there is from one another
among the leading players, when
acting as umpires, in the matter
of "offside." It seems to us that
all doubt should be removed, and
a distinct direction given to
umpires as to the position which
lays a player open to the penalties
of offside. So important a matter
should not be left open to doubt.
On thinking the matter over care-
fully it seems impossible to doubt
that Messrs. Buckmaster and
Miller's view is the right one, and
if, e.g., No. i A's pony's nose is in
front of No. 4 B's pony, so that
the umpire can see that it is so,
then it follows that No. 1 is