After understanding that there are no possibilities of playing polo and winning a match without a correct management of your horses, which includes their health and their training conditions, it’s necessary to advise about a correct and objective examination of your playing level and style.
We know for certain that in other horseman sports, like show jumping or dressage, it is necessary to find a precise and exact combination between the rider and his horse to create the first step toward success.
Many problems come with a misjudgment of this principle, apart from the waste of time and money , an important risk of life to those who are in the disadvantage not knowing all risks that polo playing involve.
Horses are not machines nor motorcycles, and it demands a great deal of riding ability to play the sport. Remember that the Argentine polo players start from their childhood to ride and play polo with the Argentine older polo horses of their families who, with the knowledge of their age, care for the wellness of the new riders. So if you are starting to play polo look for these kings of polo horses that are also cheaper than the ones that polo players have for sale.
Another important issue, if you are a non professional polo player but with some years of practice, is that you already know about your ability and your better strokes. This will take us to the next step: once knowing the principles of the game and your skills, complement them with the horses that can improve your game, not otherwise. Your horses have to understand what you need from them, so they must be trained according to this, and not only with the same manual that is available for all in the Argentine Polo Breeders web page.
For those few that are in the professional segment, my suggestion is to understand the new trends that the Argentine “Abierto” is showing from last year’s champions, in a few words: horses with greater acceleration, immediate response in short turns (training factor) for a short time of use, and above all a quick readiness to play them again in following chuckers. The game is not frequently open (large strokes and runs) because the present games played are more positional, with the possession of the ball by the more gifted player, as in basketball, and around him the rest of the players play a positional game with a side by side challenge with the adversary team, opening gateways or paths for its teammate, the holder of the ball. This way of playing needs a great deal of ability from the player and bigger horses that can posses more structural volume and also more muscular form to follow this trend and playing needs. This is the reason why Argentine breeders have been including for more than a decade TB stallions like Southern Halo and other TB stallions with sprinting abilities to their polo Argentine playing mares.
We know for certain that in other horseman sports, like show jumping or dressage, it is necessary to find a precise and exact combination between the rider and his horse to create the first step toward success.
Many problems come with a misjudgment of this principle, apart from the waste of time and money , an important risk of life to those who are in the disadvantage not knowing all risks that polo playing involve.
Horses are not machines nor motorcycles, and it demands a great deal of riding ability to play the sport. Remember that the Argentine polo players start from their childhood to ride and play polo with the Argentine older polo horses of their families who, with the knowledge of their age, care for the wellness of the new riders. So if you are starting to play polo look for these kings of polo horses that are also cheaper than the ones that polo players have for sale.
Another important issue, if you are a non professional polo player but with some years of practice, is that you already know about your ability and your better strokes. This will take us to the next step: once knowing the principles of the game and your skills, complement them with the horses that can improve your game, not otherwise. Your horses have to understand what you need from them, so they must be trained according to this, and not only with the same manual that is available for all in the Argentine Polo Breeders web page.
For those few that are in the professional segment, my suggestion is to understand the new trends that the Argentine “Abierto” is showing from last year’s champions, in a few words: horses with greater acceleration, immediate response in short turns (training factor) for a short time of use, and above all a quick readiness to play them again in following chuckers. The game is not frequently open (large strokes and runs) because the present games played are more positional, with the possession of the ball by the more gifted player, as in basketball, and around him the rest of the players play a positional game with a side by side challenge with the adversary team, opening gateways or paths for its teammate, the holder of the ball. This way of playing needs a great deal of ability from the player and bigger horses that can posses more structural volume and also more muscular form to follow this trend and playing needs. This is the reason why Argentine breeders have been including for more than a decade TB stallions like Southern Halo and other TB stallions with sprinting abilities to their polo Argentine playing mares.
