Day: July 26, 2011

“Oh, what do you do in the summertime when all the world is green?”

In Lexington, lots of things are all about horses, and we happened to find out about a polo game not far from us. We went to watch and learned a lot about the sport while we were there. Did you know players do not actually dismount—they just hop from one horse to the replacement horse—for substitutions. Also, teams travel and some of the players on our favorite team were from Australia and Argentina. The wives of the players seemed to be taking care of the horses throughout the game, so we also got to watch one woman braid, fold under, and triple-loop the horse’s tail after she sprayed him with cool water and took him out for a rest. Merayla loves to have me do her hair in “polo hair” now.