The Adelaide Polo Club is a polo club in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
Location The Adelaide Polo Club is located in Mount Barker, a suburb of Adelaide in South Australia.Official website: History of polo
History The Adelaide Polo Club was founded by William Horn in 1879 at Montefiore Hill in Adelaide, South Australia.Patricia Summerling, The Adelaide Park Lands: A Social History, Wakefield Press, 2011, p. 126 John Lancelot Stirling, a politician and grazier, also helped found the club.J. J. Pascoe, History of Adelaide and Vicinity: With a General Sketch of the Province of South Australia and Biographies of Representative Men, Hussey & Gillingham, 1901, p. 342 He was an early captain of the club.
On 16 April 1881, the club hosted its first match with other teams from the British Empire. A crowd of 4,000 onlookers attended the match. It took place at the Old Victoria Park Racecourse. The club returned to its original location at Montefiore Hill, until it moved to new grounds at Birkalla, now known as Plympton, another suburb of Adelaide.
Frank Hagger Downer (18 October 1863 – 19 March 1938), the son of Henry Edward Downer, was captain of the club at the time of his death in 1938.Alick Downer, Sir Alexander Downer, The Downers of South Australia, Wakefield Press, 2012, p. 83 Moreover, Sir Arthur Campbell Rymill, a lawyer and politician, was a member of the club.Haydon Manning, 'Rymill, Sir Arthur Campbell (1907–1989)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/rymill-sir-arthur-campbell-14182/text25194, published in hardcopy 2012, accessed online 7 September 2014.
In 1960, the club moved to Waterloo Corner, another suburb of Adelaide. In 2000, it moved to its current location in Mount Barker.
It is a member of the South Australian Polo Association.Australian Polo Federation: Members states and clubs
Further reading F. D'A. C. De L'Isle. The Adelaide Polo Club: Its History. Adelaide, South Australia: Adelaide Polo Club. 76 pages.Google Books
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