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TEAMS & DRAW: La Dolfina Cup at Ellerston 26, 28 & 30 April

The La Dolfina Cup has started at Ellerston.  If you are unable to make it to Ellerston, you can watch all games live.  This...

Polo school programme aims to shed elitist image

Teenagers in Hastings are saddling up ponies and swinging mallets as they learn to play polo, a sport which resembles hockey on horseback. Polo, aka the "sport of kings", is...

Clifton hosts first weekend of Eager’s Shield polo tournament

There was action aplenty at the first tournament of the season for the Downs Polo Club, held in Clifton at the weekend. Players from the...

Spy: Where to catch all the action for Urban Polo and the NZ Polo Open

Polo season is upon us, with rich-listers, A-listers and All Blacks among the fans stomping the divots in green fields both urban and rural. Organisers...

Historic Savile Cup on the line in Hastings polo

Up to 800 horses are in Hawke’s Bay for the Savile Cup national club polo championships, which started on Tuesday and end on Sunday. The...

Ferry operator guilty after pony deaths

Spirit of Tasmania ferry operator TT-Line has been found guilty of breaching animal welfare laws over the deaths of 16 polo ponies on a...

Pony pony case: Andrew Williams suffers head injury in horse fall

The man driving the truck in which 16 polo ponies were found dead in 2018 has suffered a serious head injury.  Andrew Williams pleaded guilty in...

No end in sight for legal saga over Spirit of Tasmania polo pony deaths

It has been more than four-and-a-half years since 16 polo ponies died during a voyage on a Spirit of Tasmania ferry, but the drawn-out...

Vet who treated polo ponies that survived Spirit of Tasmania journey gives evidence

Sixteen of the 18 horses that travelled on a Spirit of Tasmania ferry trip in 2018 likely died about eight hours into the voyage,...

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