Early records of polo in Big Horn, Wyoming date back to 1895. Their encouraging attitude and willing assistance to friends of polo established a tradition over 100 years ago that Jackson Hole Horse Emporium inherited and continues. Jackson Hole Horse Emporium is the biggest polo store in the west. Horses, any player will tell you, are the key to the game of polo.
Players travel all over the world for horses.
Notably, the 1923 U.S. Polo Association blue book observed that the supply for polo ponies was dominated by the West. There were thousands of horses recruited for the Boer War in 1899.