We arrived in Houston late on Thursday night, unloaded the horses (Bennett, Foxy, Sugar, Pancho, Playgirl, Wee Man, Tina, and Chiquita) into the huge arena pasture that they would be living in for the next 4 days, gave them hay, and grain and then headed to the hotel.
Friday morning we (Rader, Jules, Kallie, and I) got up early, ate breakfast at the hotel, and went out to take care of our ponies. We decided the night before that we would ride the ponies in the morning to tune them up and ourselves up before our match at 3:30. We proceed to feed the ponies, clean take and exercise our noble steeds. We had a meeting at 1 for the players, so we grabbed a quick lunch, and went to the beautiful facility where the matches were going to be held. On our way to lunch, the wonderful, Parker, made an appearance to help us for the weekend.
The meeting was held, and as soon as it commenced we raced to the barn and picked up our ponies, arrived back at the arena and watch the Texas A&M girls finish playing the Texas Tech girls.
Our game started a little late, but we played the University of Texas girls first. We played a hell of a game and won with a final score of 15-4 YAHOO. That brought us our final qualifying score for regionals in the spring!!!! After finishing our game, the boys of A&M, Tech, and SMU played a "round robin" type game and we hot walked the horses for the SMU boys. During the boys game, my wonderful parents arrived to watch us play on Saturday. :) We finished up with the boys, loaded our horses, took them home, gave grain and hay, and headed back to the hotel.
Saturday morning brought an early morning, as our game was at 11. So we were at the barn by 8 am, and loaded and headed to the arena around 9:30. Our second game, would be a rematch again Texas Tech. Our game started on time, and by the end, we had dominated with a commanding 16-2. That ended our weekend, with 2 wins, and a total of 31 points for us, and only 6 points against us!! GO POKES!!!
We loaded our ponies after our game, and took them back to the beautiful farm where they were staying, went back to the hotel showered, changed, and then my parents took the 4 girls to a late lunch/early dinner at a great little mexican place that we found! After eating, we returned to the arena to watch the boys play again. After some great polo, we went back to the hotel, and got some much needed sleep, so we could load up and head home Sunday morning.
We were on the road by 10 am Sunday morning, and we were back in Stillwater by 9pm. We picked up 2 new polo ponies on the way home, and while we were picking up the 2nd, we got in a few "Sunday Chukkas" in Decatur, Texas!! WAY TOO MUCH FUN. The OSU polo team received an 8 year old bay mare named Berlin, and an 18 year old grey gelding named Tornado. They are great ponies!!!
That next week we gained another new horse, a 3 year old black/brown mare named Skyy who we got off the track. You would never know that she was off the track however, other than her first time out in the pasture when she ran around like a madman lol. I sat on her 2 days after getting her, we did a little walk and trot, and I could swing a mallet, and hit balls, as well as have Meaghan throw balls at her!! What a star!!
That is about it for now, so until next time...
*Kick On* *Bump Harder*
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