A pastime going poplike vintage champagne
It is the headiest concentration of strong legs, stout hearts, blue blood, green stuff, gray matter and handsome lineaments in the world. Its venue, appropriately, is Florida's Gold Coast. What glitters there each April is the Michelob World Cup, polo's Super Bowl and World Series. What else would bring bonnie Prince Charlie to the boonies to play in sweltering humidity and wind up in West Palm Beach's Good Samaritan Hospital, a victim of heat prostration?
Polo has traditionally been the exclusive sport of maharajahs, marquises and millionaires, and the game's stars still tend to be the rich...