Polo..............

Players score by using a wooden mallet to drive the ball between the opposing team's goal posts while riding at speeds of up to 35 miles per hour, requiring mastery in horse riding. The team scoring the most goals wins. A game of outdoor polo lasts about one and a half to two hours, has two teams of four players, and consists of four to eight seven-minute chukkas (or chukkers), between or during which players change mounts.

The progenitor of polo and its variants was an equestrian game named chovgan (Persian: چوگان), which was played from the 6th century BCE to the 1st century CE in Persia (Iran) and Central Asia. Its modern form developed in India, and was later adopted by the Western world.

Often called "The Sport of Kings", polo has become popular around the world as a spectator sport for equestrians and high society, often supported by sponsorship.Today there are well over 100 member countries in the Federation of International Polo, and it is played professionally in 16 countries.

It was also an Olympic sport from 1900 to 1936.