Polo ponies, owned by the very rich for jetting around the planet to various polo matches, wearing polo clothes and using polo mallets to hit a polo ball across the polo field, are not owned singly. A well equipped polo player has several, half a dozen, even, known as a string of the lively little buggers, in case one gets worn out galloping from end of the field to the other and back again in pursuit of the polo ball.

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