*Gamely barrels on (learning is fun!)* You know, I'm not entirely sure why that is because, as I understand it, they're usually thoroughbred-crosses, you know, bred for speed? And thoroughbreds are horses. Maybe because it alliterates nicely?
*tangent alert!* Eärendil, do you know what alliteration is? No, okay, that's your homework for tomorrow, you find that out.
Anyway, I'm not entirely sure but like I said, polo is a crazy game. I know someone who plays it, I could ask him. He swears blind that it's fun, "like a cross between soccer and croquet played at speeds of up to forty miles an hour," but when he said that he had just had his nose broken by a getting headbutted by a horse - sorry - pony, so there's every chance he was concussed at the time.
*Shakes her head and sighs in a "boys will be boys," sort of way.* Ahh, Númenóreans.