Jed Ednie, by his own admission, doesn’t care for riding horses. At least not in the typical sense.
“I grew up having to show, doing trail riding, and I don’t like any of it,” Ednie said this week. But get him on a horse, put a mallet in his hand, and set him at one end of a sweeping playing field alongside three teammates and their own horses — that’s another story.
“Polo’s an actual sport,” Ednie explained. “It’s completely different…you’ve got to work with other individuals and their horse skills. To me, that’s the best.”
The first time he played, he was 12 and trying to wield a mallet that was much too big for him (“I just felt like such a wuss because the mallet was so heavy,” Ednie said).