Perth Polo Club
The Perth Polo Club is a polo club in Guildford, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia. Location The club is currently located at Kings Meadow on the outer southern side of the historical town of Guildford, on the river flat of the Helena River.Official website: History of Polo in Perth
Former grounds include , and other locations over time.

History

The club was founded in 1896 and is the oldest polo club in Western Australia. It was set up before the establishment of the
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Polo Players At The 2014 W
Polo is a ball game 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 score (game), scoring using a long-handled wooden mallet to hit a small hard #Ball, ball through the opposing team's goal (sport), goal. Each team has four mounted riders, and the game usually lasts one to two hours, divided into periods called ''chukkas'' or "''chukkers''". Polo has been called "the sport of kings", and has become a spectator sport for equestrians and high society (social class), high society, often supported by sponsor (commercial), sponsorship. The progenitor of the game and its variants existed from the to the as equestrian games played by Eurasian nomads, nomadic Iranian peoples, Iranian and Turkic peoples, Turkic peoples. In Persia, where the sport evolved and developed, it was at first a training game for cavalry units, usually the royal guard or other elite troops. A notable ...
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