Monday, May 26, 2008
Sunday polocrosse
Sorry to have missed you yesterday. We devoted fourteen hours to a polocrosse rally and logistical considerations attendant thereto. Polocrosse is as it sounds -- lacrosse on horses -- with rules changes to account for, well, horses (lots o' helpful links here). Anyway, I snapped the obligatory action shots of the TH Daughter:
No, that is not her usual mount. She borrowed "Jack Be Nimble" for the day. The small ponies have an advantage in the game because they are able to turn in a much narrower radius. True, they give up a lot of checking power against the bigger horses, but from my observation the increased maneuverability is worth it, at least at the novice level.
Note to fascinated friends and relatives: If you click through any of the pictures and jump to the Flickr polocrosse set there are more.
7 Comments:
By 
, at
Mon May 26, 02:42:00 PM:
Thanks for sharing. Looks like a beautiful day out there.
Here's to wishing you and yours the best this Memorial Day!
By , at
Mon May 26, 05:49:00 PM:
Forsooth , Hawk...if that be yer surname? Forget thee Salamis bay? D'ye nay recall LoPanto? Nor, the skirmish at Aboukir bay ( the Nile to you colonialists ) nor , in the same timeframe ...d'ye gainsay the "Philadelphia" aground in Tripoli bay 'neath the heavy shore batteries of the "Bey" , hisself? and the bold young Stephen Decatur ! sent by Jefferson , himself! What spaketh of Stirling Bridge nor the "Hot Gates"- fie with all this talk of "size"...'tis mind and spirit that matters...Agincourt? , anyone.
Oh , btw , McCain by a landslide-shhhh!.....great pix, thanx.
By 
Christopher Chambers, at
Mon May 26, 10:13:00 PM:
Anonymous--you're almost as deranged as both Clintons. Come to my blog, you tool, and we'll talk Aboukir Bay, Jefferson and Agincourt...and McCain...if you have the balls.
"Polocrosse?" You keep coming up with the sports, we'll keep breeding Tigers/Williams Sisters etc to take from you. Hockey's pretty sick and pointless, but...
By TigerHawk, at
Mon May 26, 10:22:00 PM:
Chris, I hate to call you on it, but you are one of the least athletic people I know. If the breeding program that you refer to is at all organized, I am sure you have been excluded from it.
Not that I'm one to talk, but I did not just offer up a racial theory of athleticism.
By Dawnfire82, at
Mon May 26, 10:56:00 PM:
"You keep coming up with the sports, we'll keep breeding Tigers/Williams Sisters etc to take from you."
You really do see everything through the lenses of racial competition, don't you? No wonder you're so bitter and foul-tempered all the time.
"Chris, I hate to call you on it, but you are one of the least athletic people I know."
Haha! Still want to 'step outside, un-athletic civilian?'
By Escort81, at
Tue May 27, 12:11:00 AM:
Chris, I hate to call you on it, but you are one of the least athletic people I know. If the breeding program that you refer to is at all organized, I am sure you have been excluded from it.
Not that I'm one to talk, but I did not just offer up a racial theory of athleticism.
Ouch! Is that the kind of take down that leads to the expression "pwned" being used? Or is that so 2006?
But I bet Chris could do one-armed curls or Trees & Trolls pretty well @ TI.
I'm giving CC the benefit of the doubt here and believing that he made that post with humor intended.
Hey, just about the only time I scored on a Princeton woman was during an intramural ice hockey game at Baker Rink, and the Cap & Gown goalie happened to be a female. You didn't have to be a great athlete to compete and have fun.
The Native Americans invented lacrosse, and the Persians invented polo, so I suppose the TH daughter and her cohorts are ripping off non-Caucasian peoples?? Looks to me like they're just having fun, thanks to very generous parents.
By TigerHawk, at
Tue May 27, 06:35:00 AM:
The Native Americans invented lacrosse, and the Persians invented polo, so I suppose the TH daughter and her cohorts are ripping off non-Caucasian peoples??
Bizarrely, polocrosse was invented in Australia, whence you still have to import the equipment. I've long wondered about that one. The only explanation is the usual explanation, which is that most cultural fusions have been at the behest or consequence of the descendents of European imperialists.
