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USPA Team USA Applications Notice

Team USA is a program designed and funded by the USPA to identify all USPA members who are U.S. Citizens and to further identify USPA members who meet the qualification standards to be provided additional opportunities to be trained and to be mentored by experienced and world-renowned instructors and mentors of the Team USA program.

Download an application for the USPA Team USA program here.

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Press Releases

U.S. Polo Association's Equine Drugs & Medications Testing Program Travels to Member Clubs

June 18, 2010 (Wellington, FL) – In a continuing effort to ensure the welfare of mounts, the U.S. Polo Association (USPA) will take its pilot program for equine drugs and medications testing on the road to a number of USPA sanctioned events this summer and fall.

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U.S. Polo Association Teams Up with the U.S. Pony Club

April 12, 2010 (Wellington, FL) –  The United States Polo Association (USPA) is working with the United States Pony Clubs, Inc. (USPC) in a cross-promotional effort to attract young riders to both organizations. The USPA is working with its member clubs and other polo entities to offer polo to the USPC Regions in the form of educational clinics.

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Polo Pony Welfare Committee (PPWC)

USPA Establishes Committee to Examine
Additional Safeguards for Polo Horses



POLO IN THE NEWS

Denton Record Chronicle - Team USA Player Stever Krueger is "on top of his game."
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WKSN News- Wichita's Best Kept Secret
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MISS FHM, Lauren Harris, Gives Polo A Try at Brandywine Polo Club in Philadelphia.
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The Post-Star
- Man trying to help get "polo to the people"

By WILL SPRINGSTEAD 05/16/10

GREENWICH -- Could Greenwich become the place where American polo is saved from itself? It could be, if Ketav Shah has anything to say about it.

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Wall Street Journal -
Defying Downturn, Polo Scores New Fans

By PUI-WING TAM

05/13/2010 - Many people cut back on leisure activities during the recession. But Silicon Valley's polo clubs showed surprising growth.

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The Palm Beach Post
-A year after Wellington tragedy, random drug testing begins for horses in polo matches

Mitra Malek-04/05/2010

Ponies at polo games across the nation could be randomly tested for drugs as early as Tuesday, the first time that has happened for the sport in the United States. 

The U.S. Polo Association rolled out its new drug testing program and medication rules to coincide with the sport's most prestigious tournament on American soil, the U.S. Open Polo Championships. 

For full story: http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/a-year-after-wellington-tragedy-random-drug-testing-525875.html 

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 to view a CBS Interactive on Nacho Figueras...

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Putting Glamour on Horseback
By Alex Williams, The New York Times, July 31, 2009

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Britney Spears shoots latest video around the Santa Barbara Polo scene
Britney Spears Radar Music Video Duration 3:40

E:60 Polo Ponies (Video)
Publish Date: May 5, 2009, 05:07 PM ET Duration: 13:13