Sample Polo Manual
By Sue Sally Hale

To all those who want to be players. I hope this is a help in making you a safe, conventional, responsible member in the world of polo.

"To buy a trophy is not even the same rush of high as to lose to an equally good team as the one your were on . . . ." Duke Coulter

Polo is life, live it to the fullest, good, bad, and indifferent. --Sue Sally Hale

1. Basic Information: Horses and Players

2. Handy Hints - Beginner Level

3. Handy Hints - Intermediate Level

4. Handy Hints - Advanced Level

5. Polo Drill

6. Polo Chart - Horse

8. Chart - The three lines

9. Offside Forehand Drill

10. Offside Backhand Drill

11. Near-side Push Drill

12. Offside Circling Left Drill

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Man, line ball. Live by the rules and you won't fall!

Dash and dart, hurry and scurry, players and horses all together in a flurry.

Whistle here, penalty shot there. The little white ball flies through the air.

Hooves and mallets, turf and sky, by pass life's cares, as time goes by. Total exertion, the ultimate high a true test of self, the why for which over and over we try.

Sometimes unique, yet in the same breathe quite bleak, this game we play also out of which a living we eek.

What would life be if polo be didn't play, the game abut life called "Giants To Slay."

For this we struggle, laugh and pray, hoping to live long enough to play and play.

The ultimate goal in which to believe is to pass from this life out where we achieve, on the field of honor, that's covered with grass, on top of a horse with a ball to thrash. --

Sue Sally Hale