Prestonwood Polo brings the Sport of Kings to North Texas. You don't even need to know the Queen.The polo field is a blur of long legs and gleaming leather. Eight sets of horses and riders stampede after a fist-sized ball in a thunderstorm of hooves and divots, colliding horses and slicing mallets. Balls whistle past. On the far end, two men whoop. Suddenly, a rider clad in crimson atop a dappled gray mount charges ahead of the pack. Vaughn Miller swings at the ball. The mallet connects with a crack, and the ball hurtles into the goal.
In 2002, Jordan Malone was lying in a Switzerland hospital with 16 screws and four titanium plates holding his face together. Inline speed skaters are used to injuries, but this injury felt different. Earlier in the year, while competing, he had slipped and twisted his leg, keeping him off skates for four months.
A premiere equine facility in the midst of Texas Horse CountryA wild-eyed steer darts out of the chute. Two cowboys on horseback kick up red dirt, gaining on him. Will Travis whirls a lasso, hooks the animal’s horns and turns him while the other cowboy lassos the back feet.