A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE GAME OF POLO

he first recorded game took place in 600 BC , amid the Turkomans and Persians (the Turkomans won) . In the 4th century AD King Sapoor II of Persia learned to play , age-old 7 . In the 16th century AD a polo ground (300 yards long and with goal posts 8 yards apart) was built at Ispahan , then the capital , by Shah Abbas the Great . The Moguls were abundantly responsible for taking the game from Persia to the east , and by the 16th aeon the Emperor Babur had established it in India . (It had once continued been played in China and Japan , but had died out by the time the west came in acquaintance with those countries) . In the 1850s British tea planters discovered the game in Manipur (Munipoor) on the Burmese border with India . The first polo club in the apple was formed by them at Silchar , west of Manipur . Other clubs followed and , today , the oldest in the apple is the Calcutta Club , founded in 1862 . Malta followed in 1868 , due to soldiers and Naval officers stopping off there on their way home from India . In 1869 Edward “Chicken” Hartopp , 10th Hussars , read an annual of the bold in The Field , eventhough stationed at Aldershot , and with brother admiral organised the first game - known then as “hockey