It is called Desert Polo and it has more fields than Florida more Polo if you take the area here versus there . You can lead your horses from Club stables to anywhere they play if you want and never take more than 15 minutes to get to destination. Once there you do not need a rain jacket or an umbrella unless Sun bothers you. You will play your game on awesome fields and if weekend huge crowds really stokes your ego . You will get two yes 2 tournament games ever week and be back to work Monday morning if needed or just enjoy about any sport or activity you want from Golf to Mountain Climbing and from Checkers to the Opera WE GOT IT. No matter where you are the Weather is better here and will always be and best of all you will save a lot of money and still have a boat load of funnnnn. Do not take my word for it look it up on the net. This place should be the Capital of Polo that’s how good it is Empire Polo is the most scenic Polo club in the World and El Dorado is right next door and as awesome as anywhere else . We have it in the Coachella Valley 20 million visitors cannot be wrong.
POLO is a simple game that cost a lot to play in any venue and it is getting worse . You have the big boys who play to win at all cost and you have the ones who want to be in the game and then you have those who just want to be there and do not have the ability or the finances to be there and as rude as this may sound these are the people killing the sport they are driving the pros to poverty and the other Patrons away because they bring danger and unnecessary risk to the game which is a hobby for the Patrons not a life threatening adventure and this happens at many levels for many reasons. Lets start with Low goal Polo the most dangerous ! Here is where we lose so many people in the sport .
Two things here are the . Big problem : # 1 is the cheap bully Patron who loves to clobber new people with a decent pro he usually does and abuses others as game goes on . He never moves up just stays there and many new people say good bye as it was not fun. Most clubs have one , # 2 New Patrons always want to do it cheap because they are not sure they want to do it or they really cannot afford it so thhey get a 2500 dollar groom with no horses to be there pro usually an Argentine Groom but not always there are many others and he has no idea what he is doing as his experience is stick and balling Patrons horses and maybe watching the Argentine Open on TV . He has nothing to ride that should be on field , runs into or over someone and ? Well Patron rich or maybe says this is stupid I AM GONE. Its very simple if you can really afford to play Polo you can for sure afford not to so he is gone .
reason :
Club managers have no control or just want numbers. USPA will not step in and help until it is way to late a situation I have seen in the last 2 years right here in Ca.
SOMEHOW THE USPA DOES NOT UNDERSTAND WE NEED PATRONS THEY DO NOT NEED US !
MEDIUM GOAL BASICALLY 12 GOAL.
The most likely place for Polo to work for the masses of better Polo 8 to 14 goal Polo a great place for Young Americans to be part of the sport and make it a sport and it is not happening less than 40 % of 12 goal teams are Americans the place to grow American youths to the future but they never get a chance. Why ? There is no way for them to get there , no protection which means no production , Why can we not insert a rule 3 Americans in any team 20 goals and under ? Because some big wig said I will not play ?? Well we do not have a very big Ass. so tell him to travel on , he will be back or forgotten quickly.
High Goal
There is no doubt we need foreign players for this < BUT WHY We never gave Americans a chance to get there after 2002. Why bother we can get a foreigner who already plays this Polo and rules say i and any Patron is 1 that was the end of USPOLO and all on USPOLO yes we were big but after OWEN, ADAM,MIKE well then what Julio got to nine because of Cokes Loyalty Nick made it to 8 and got a lot of help from the Late Bob Daniels and Ganzi’s Jef made it to 8 and did it with plenty of help from ABusch and Goodman but that has been 14 years and we are going South and I do not mean to Argentina just the wrong way. I think we are in big trouble and we can fix it easy :
# 1 We do not need 26 goal polo original deal if we got 8 teams ok otherwise adios . I see this year many have already committed 3 I think .
#2 Forget the 26 and two Americans on all teams PERIOD
#3 Try Javier Tanoria’s rules , They make the sport better NOW and in todays world are perfect MONEY man wants to be in the GAME and this does it and also cuts cost 40 % .
THE PROBLEM IS : USPA AND THEY KNOW IT!!! iT IS SIMPLE THE WORD UNITED STATES POLO ASS. I THINK MEANS USAPLAYERS
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