Polo Masters

The french polo masters tournament was held in Val from the 11th to 14th January - yes, horses on snow running around after a small beach ball! We watched a few of the heats and the finals over a couple of nights, enjoying free vin chaud, soup and waffles on the side of the Face piste were the pisters had flattened an area to make an oval. I'm not sure what the grass version of polo is like but this seemed to be pretty much anything goes with the game only stopping when someone fell off their horse or the ball went out of the arena. There were 4 teams in the competition with 3 players each. The game is divided into 4 chuckers (quarters) when all players change horses, guess it gets too cold for them. It's a very fast paced game and the final was hotly contested to a narrow 9-8 result.