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...four decades. But polo, the world's toniest contact sport, remained haughtily and expensively cloistered. No more. On weekend afternoons around the country, crowds of tailgating fans show up to watch scores of horses thunder across neatly turfed ten-acre greenswards. Willow mallets whistle--pock--as high-charging riders smack a 4-oz. white wooden ball. Brooks Fire-stone, 49, of the tire Firestones, reports, "It's no longer a social, rich man's game...
...She’d be like, ‘Go on! Smack on another 45,’ and I’d be trying to impress the big Olympian going ‘Yeah! Woo! I’m hardcore,’” Corriero says. “And like I can’t fit into any of my jeans anymore, I’m like dammit...
...Moog's only guests, you and your entourage can avail yourself of a butler, a chef, a gym and a pool smack in the heart of Sydney's chic Darlinghurst quarter. Feel like having company? Then pop into the adjoining bar, which is open to the public and packed with local cognoscenti. If you really want to live the rock 'n' roll dream, there's a fully equipped recording studio on site. And Moog has even installed waterproof TV screens by the poolside, along with underwater speakers encased in glass. With diversions like these, it hardly seems worth the effort...
...groups of 10 or so, the children dart back and forth like the parts of a complex machine. In one group, they mark balls thrown in the air by Aussie Rules players from the St. Kilda Football Club. In another, they awkwardly practice handballing to the veteran players. They smack into tackling bags, play bullrush, and try to evade the tackles of lurking Saints. And they learn how to scoop balls off the turf and kick short into the muscled arms of two-time Brownlow medalist Robert Harvey...
...just one, extravagant suite, reservations are essential. (There's another apartment, but it belongs to the hotel's owners and is only available when they're away.) As Moog's only guests, you and your entourage can avail yourself of a butler, a chef, a gym and a pool smack in the heart of Sydney's chic Darlinghurst quarter. Feel like having company? Then pop into the adjoining bar, which is open to the public and packed with local cognoscenti. If you really want to live the rock 'n' roll dream, there's a fully equipped recording studio on site...