PROFITABLE POLO.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14015, 24 June 1913, Page 2

PROFITABLE POLO.

£40,000 TAKEN IN AMERICA

(Sydney Sun Cables.) ‘ LONDON, Juno 17

The amount paid in admission money at the international polo contests, just concluded at Meadowbrook, Long Island, (New York) totalled not less than £40,000.

As the profits all go to the American Polo Association this body netted £35,000.

Tho ponies taken over to America by the English team numbered nearly 50, and wong perhaps, tho most valuable collection ever got together in the history of th< - game. On the previous occasion. two years ago, on which they wont ovei to the United States, the English players suffered very much through the failure of their ponies to stand the hard work ami the climatic-..conditions associated with their journey across the. Atlantic- The Duke ot Westminster, himself a great polo player, spent some time getting together a powerful troop of the best polo ponies possible for the great contest, and more than half those that left England were the Duke’s own property. Of those Energy, Kilkenny. Tiger, and Nutmeg made the trip two years ago. Tho average value of these animals worked out at £4OO, hut there wore some valued at £7OO, £BOO, and £IOOO. In all tlie entire troop may be. valued at £20,000, and the ponies were all insured by the Atlantic Transport Company.