That review was very accurate. I’m going to start a GoFundMe for the desperately sad players in this series so they can all get estrogen therapy.
I enjoyed Polo and the behind the scenes look at Wellington. Agree that I’d love more on both Pamela and Susie Dutta. I would 1000% love a Real Housewives of Wellington especially if it involved an inner look at the horse show scene. How can we get that made?!
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It’s not related to polo, but if you look on YouTube, you might be able to find the old episodes of Road to the Maclay, which was a behind-the-scenes documentary series of the kids who were competing in Wellington and other places that year in the equitation classes.
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Oh I love Road to the Maclay, seen it a bunch of times, love it! Would love a current/updated version in a reality show format 
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-If new to the sport, look up Sue Sally Hale and her daughter Sunny Hale. At first, Sue Sally disguised herself as a man to play.
-Watch a video of the Argentine Open. All eight players are the best in the world, no amateurs. There will be many cloned ponies playing.
-If you compare the Arg Open to baseball’s World Series, most polo is closer to church softball.
-Most polo ponies were racetrack rejects. If those weren’t playing polo, they would have been sold off by the pound.
-Aiken was one of the initial areas in the US that started cloning horses.
I know at least one that made the career transition from polo to Grand Prix jumper. They said she showed early talent by hopping over the sideboards very easily on the polo field.
Yes, the race track rejects that didn’t make the polo grade were sold into many other disciplines. After polo training, many made very nice horses.
I watched it a couple weeks ago. First reaction: How did the gray haired dude manage to be such a big part when he couldn’t complete one sentence with out using the “f” word? Completely classless and IMO reflects poorly on the the whole production. Second reaction: each episode was pretty much the same: some personal drama/complaining, horses running up and down the field through that episode’s playoff match. Reminders about how expensive/time consuming this sport is. Rinse, repeat. Boring.
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I finally watched it this week, and I liked it. I know nothing about polo and learned a couple of factoids. I agree I would have liked to seen more about the day-to-day of the ponies, but it met my expectations for mindless escapism.
Mostly I just came away feeling grateful that my parents have no control over my identity, financial well-being, career path, or relationship with my spouse. The pressure these people felt to live up to everyone’s expectations for them seemed suffocating. Not excusing the ways they in turn treated the people around them (I wanted to shake that jumper rider and tell her to run as fast as she could from her boyfriend who couldn’t be bothered to give her the time of day). But having your full professional and personal identity, plus emotional health, invested in what your parents think of you seems unbearable to me.
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