The U.S. Polo Association, the sport's governing body, is opening their own investigation.

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And rather than sit down in front of the television and loudly cheer for their soccer teams like you and I do, these ridiculously affluent people have taken fancy to an exclusive, different kind of sport- polo.

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Kam Air sponsors teams in volleyball, football, cricket and buzkashi (literally, goat grabbing), a national sport akin to polo.

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And the country house hotel, part of the posh Dorchester Collection, has recently started making polo more than a spectator sport.

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Yet the MacLanes believed there was one shirt that hadn't yet been made: a polo that could cross from sport to the office.

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Over the years these have included polo, competitive horse carriage driving (a sport in which he has represented Britain) science, the study of UFOs, practical jokes, painting and taking the wheel of his own London taxi.

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Elephant polo, played primarily in countries like India, Nepal and Thailand, follows similar rules as the traditional sport, though the pitch (or field) is a bit smaller, players wield longer mallets made from cane or bamboo and two people ride the elephant: the player and the mahout who steers the animal.

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Mia Randall-Coath, executive secretary of the International Women's Polo Association, admits that while sponsorship money has been "tight" for clubs lower down the pyramid, the sport is resistant.

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