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...Nick enters one of the enclosed wooden cubes and firmly pushes away a horse, which lazily shifts its bulk aside to let him through. “Who left the windows open?” Nick says, shutting the window in the back of the stall as he shudders. “This is silly!” He noisily kisses Pinocho on the head, and the grey gelding stares back with bulbous eyes, steam issuing from his nostrils...
...next hour, the three boys troop around the stable to tack the horses. They wrap protective bandages around the ponies’ fore legs, attach the bridles, lay out saddle blankets, and braid the tails to make room for back swings. Nick jumps onto a golf cart with a large rake attached to the back, and the vehicle wheezes and rattles across the indoor arena in sweeping symmetrical arcs to smooth the sand, or “footing,” which is looser than most other indoor fields. Mid-way, Nick gets out of the car to swiftly scoop...
...combination of “Harvard” and “polo” may reek of rich-boy snobbery, but Nick refuses to discount the sport’s intensity on behalf of its image. “It’s expensive to play polo. There’s no other way around it,” says Nick, who believes some are involved in the polo scene simply for the presumed lifestyle. “How do you feel about those people? You kinda feel torn because they help push the game forward?...
...it’s apparent that Nick loves the game. During practice, he sings: “Walk, walk, walk—hold it, put it in. That’s you, Pabs, hit—hit!” Nick surveys his teammates. Botero rode all his life in Colombia but only began polo with the team’s rebirth two years ago, and Scalise—who stopped playing lacrosse for Harvard at the end of last summer—rode minimally before joining the team this school year with the encouragement of Nick, a fellow member...
...percentage of playing time to the time you’re out there is less than 10 percent, maybe,” Nick says. “There’s no way you’re just going to go out there and things are going to go well just because you have a lot of money and the nicest horses. It really does reward the people who are working the hardest and are involved in it the most...