WHAT POLO PONIES COST.

Lake County Press, Issue 1066, 28 May 1903, Page 6

WHAT POLO PONIES COST.

" The present popularity of polo has caused the price of well-bred, fast, and tho:oughly broken or truined polo-ponies to increase enormously, so that first-class polo seems likely soon to become a game in which only millionaires will be able to indulge. Wh", ten yeats ago, would have thought of paying £SOO or £6OO for a single pony '/ Yet now wo frequently hear of polo ponies being sold for 500g5., GOOgs., and 700gs. apiece, and only recently two polo-ponies fetched respectively 850g*. and 900gs. Of cotirse.it would be absurd to suppose that the cleverest polo-pony ever foaled could be worth that amount of money, and polo players have in a measure themselves to bin me for raising the market price of ponies to the high level thai, it, has now reached. Even in uarts of India the pony market is undergoing a similar ti a information, A few years Bgo a clever polo pony would fetch in the opt-n inaikct between 160 rupees and 200 rupees; but now, owing to the willingness—nay, the anxiety —of certain Englishmen to pay higher hgmos, the average price of a tip-top pony in such places as Bombay, Calcutta, and Madras varies between 500 and 600 rupees, and Ihe prices seem likely to creep still higher."— Basil Tozer, in the August nutn liei of the " Windsor Magazine.''