The Evolution Of Polo -H.A. Laffaye 2009.pdf

The Evolution

of Polo

A LSO BY H ORACE A. L AFFAYE

AND FROM M C F ARLAND

Proﬁles in Polo:

The Players Who Changed the Game (2007)

The Polo Encyclopedia (2004)

T HE E VOLUTION

OF P OLO

Horace A. Laffaye

Foreword by Nigel à Brassard

McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers

Jefferson, North Carolina, and London

L IBRARY OF C ONGRESS C ATALOGUING - IN -P UBLICATION D ATA

Laffaye, Horace A., 1935–

The evolution of polo / Horace A. Laffaye ;

foreword by Nigel à Brassard.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-7864-3814-3

softcover : 50# alkaline paper

1. Polo — History. 2. Polo players — History.

I. À Brassard, Nigel

II. Title.

GV1011.L343

2009

796.353 — dc22

2009016337

British Library cataloguing data are available

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or recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system,

without permission in writing from the publisher.

Cover photograph: Billy and Bill Ylvisaker, Adie Von Gontard, Jr.,

and young Adie Von Gontard III before a practice game

in the ¡970s (Museum of Polo and Hall of Fame)

Manufactured in the United States of America

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Box 611, Jefferson, North Carolina 28640

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