The Western Australian Polo Association is the governing association of

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clubs in

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History

The Western Australian Polo Association was founded in 1903.Horace A. Laffaye, ''The Evolution of Polo'', Jefferson, North Carolina: MacFarland & Company, 2009, p. 42 As polo historian Horace A. Laffaye reminds us, this happened seven years after the establishment of the first polo club in Western Australia, the

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, in 1896. Indeed, polo had first been played at the Fremantle Hunt Club in

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as early as 1892, almost ten years before the establishment of the Western Australian Polo Association. The association is a member of the

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.Australian polo Association: Member states and clubs
/ref> It comprises all polo clubs registered with the Australian Polo Federation which are based in Western Australia. Historically, this included polo clubs in the Goldfields-Esperance region, Cue or Geraldton and several other locations. However, it currently only comprises five polo clubs: * Kojonup Polo Club in Kojonup. *

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. * Serpentine Polo Club in

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. * Swan Valley Polo Club in the Swan Valley. * Walkaway Polo Club in Walkaway. The current President is Greg Johnson.WA Polo Association: Contacts
/ref> It is headquartered in Serpentine.Government of Western Australia: Department of Sport and Recreation: Dimensions for Polo
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