Ep. 154: When Lone Star Cowboys Took the Sport of Kings
In This Episode
• The origins of polo in sixth-century B.C. Persia — and why it was war training, not sport
• How the British found the game in India, and the first formal English rules in 1875
• James Gordon Bennett brings polo to America — and immediately sends to Texas for horses
• Vanderbilts and Belmonts buying Hill Country mustangs
• San Antonio as the polo pony capital of the United States by 1885
• The Texas breeders: O. W. Cardwell of Junction, “Doc” Weir of Georgetown, Jay Floyd of Midland
• What these horses actually were — Spanish mustang stock with Thoroughbred blood, long before…
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