Polo Luxury Matches may appear to represent a quaint British afternoon sport, but polo was in fact first played in Persia sometime between the 6th century BC to the 1st century AD as a training game for cavalry units - who played it with as many as 100 to a side, and to whom it was like a miniature battle. British tea planters only got their first introduction to Polo in 1613 in Assam - after the sport had mde it's merry way around Arabia, Tibet, Japan and China.. The more you know eh!