Mr Chang was, they said, equally brilliant on the polo field and in the ballroom.

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Near Windsor's entrance, there's a polo field where charity events have brought Prince Charles, actor Tommy Lee Jones and Italian hotelier Salvatore Ferragamo to town.

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Celebrity stylist and designer Rachel Zoe wore an oversized black floppy hat and a black and white maxi dress of her own design to stomp the divots on the polo field.

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He is competitive and will at least be on more of a level playing field when he captains a polo team during a match in Connecticut on Wednesday.

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Nowadays he's one of the wealthiest men in the country (No. 24 on our recent Thai 40 Richest list) and, since he took up polo eight years ago, has been found on the field playing with the likes of Prince Charles and top-ranked Adolfo Cambiaso.

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The majority of those medals will be given in sports that originated, in their modern form, in Britain: archery, athletics (track and field), boxing, badminton, field hockey, football (soccer), rowing, sailing, swimming, water polo, table tennis, and tennis.

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