Twilight Polo

After the Newseum we met up with DFL and drove out to Horse Country. This is a section of Virginia that's far enough away from the cities to support horses and the wealthy who ride them.

I mean, they still have fox hunting out there. Who knew?

We went to the greens in Middleburg, which also hosts races and such, including the Gold Cup which requires you wear a big floppy hat and a sun dress. Saturday night however, was all about Twilight Polo.

What is Twilight Polo you ask?

It's polo. But at night.

They play inside this dirt arena, although they were moving to grass next week.



That's all I can really tell you, because I know nothing about polo. But I've learned a little bit.

The match is divided into four periods, called chukkers, which is the best word ever and I took every oppurtunity possible to use it.

"Did they use the same horse as last chukker?"
"My, what an exciting chukker!"
"We're almost to the end of the chukker!"
"Down in front, chukker!!"

They also had a bbq caterer, which meant you could cheer during the chukker while savoring pulled pork. It was a good night.

During the first match we cheered for the team in black, because they had the only girl, and she was wearing a pink helmet and had pink leg warmers (shin guards?) on her horses.



If you double click on the picture, you can see it better.

The second match there was a girl on each team, so we split into two groups (by this time DFL had picked up some random fellow to come hang out with us, since he was all alone) and cheered for opposing teams.

It was a lot of fun. Polo's pretty exciting, and fun to watch even when you don't know what's going on.

Unfortunately my little camera doesn't do so well at night, or with things that are far away, so I don't have any really good pictures of the horses.

DFL got some good pictures though, so everyone give her your best puppy eyes and maybe she'll post some for us.