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Title: Modern polo
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Miller, Edward Darley, 1865-1930 Hayes, M. Horace (Matthew Horace), 1842-1904
Subjects: Horses
Publisher: London : Hurst and Blackett, limited
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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3. Cheapness. 4. Facility for being played by weak or indifferenthorsemen. The Barb is essentially a pony for an unambitiousplayer, and does well enough for ordinary club games,or in places like Malta and Gibraltar, where they arenot called upon to meet animals of good class, orheavier ponies than themselves. Barb blood, for instance. Lord Harringtons AwfullyJolly, has nicked with our English mares. I think,however, that equally satisfactory results could beobtained by a cross with a high-caste Arab. ARGENTINES. 203 The points of Barbs are much the same as Syrians,except that they are more goose-rumped. They arefrequently high on the leg. As a rule, they are cow-hocked, narrow, and split up. They have almostalways excellent legs and feet. Sherry (Fig. 85), a bay gelding, is the best andfastest Barb I have ever seen. Mr. John Walker,who still owns him, bought him from Major Peters (4thHussars), in 1892. He has good shoulders, perfectmouth, is marvellously handy, and quick at starting.
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Fig. 86.—Argentine pony.ARGENTINES. In 1896 and 1897, we had the pleasure of two visits,from Buenos Ayres, of polo teams mounted onArgentine ponies. As almost every year players comeover for a holiday from that place, and bring theirponies with them, our knowledge of these animals hasbeen considerably enlarged. In London and else- 204 BREEDS OF POLO PONIES. (Chap. VIII. where, these teams earned a good reputation for play,dash and combination in the game ; but their ponies,with a few exceptions, were too slow to allow them tocompete on even terms with well-mounted Englishteams. Mr. Scott Robson, the Back of both Argentineteams, always has big, strong 14.2 ponies, which haveto be really good to carry their owner, who walksnearly sixteen stone. Among his large stud, I likedLangosta and Bismarck best. Langosta thoroughlyjustified the high opinion formed of him ; for he turnedout by far the best Argentine pony we have seen.My brother and I played him in the winning team ofthe Champion C

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