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Paul Clarkin, died from a fall during a polo match, "playing a blinder". Gabriel Donoso (1960–2006), Chilean polo player, died from a fall during a polo match. Frederic Brooks Dugdale (1877–1902), English recipient of the Victoria Cross. Charles Fairfax; Carlos Gracida, thrown and crushed by horse during a polo match in 2014.
Gracida's most famous horse was Chesney, who won the Best Playing Pony award numerous times, including in 1988, 1989 and 1991 at the British Open Gold Cup. His personal favorite was Nony Nony, a seven time Gold Cup winner in England. [1] He was inducted into the Museum of Polo and Hall of Fame in 2012. [3]
It is a traditional sport in which horse-mounted players attempt to place a goat carcass in a goal. Similar games are known as kokpar, [2] kupkari, [3] and ulak tartysh [4] in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. [5] Game of buzkashi in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan Playing Kokpar by Franz Roubaud
Former Staten Island Congressman Michael Grimm has been left paralyzed from the chest down after falling off of a horse in a freak polo accident in September, pals told The Post on Sunday.. The 54 ...
Prince Harry took a royal tumble off his horse during a polo match at the Santa Barbara Polo and Racquet Club in California on Sunday. Thankfully, Harry and his horse were not injured after the ...
Pages in category "Polo deaths" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Abd al-Malik I (Samanid ...
Susan Cummings (born July 21, 1962, in Monte Carlo, Monaco) is an American heiress, best known for killing her boyfriend in 1997. She had been charged with homicide, but subsequently convicted of voluntary manslaughter only. She was released after serving 57 days. Biography Cummings and her fraternal twin sister, Diana, are the only children of billionaire arms dealer Samuel Cummings. After ...
Carroll's knowledge of horses led to his participation in the game of polo. One of the top twenty-five players in the world during the 1950s and 1960s, he became an eight-goal handicap player. He remained active in the game throughout his life and at the time of his death at age sixty-two still had a four-goal handicap. [2]