The Hungarian Polo Club held this Saturday the first week-end of the Count Andrássy Picnic, its last event of this year's Hungarian horse polo season at its venue in Tabajd, southwest of Budapest.
Before World War II, the horse polo sport had great traditions in Hungary and it was only after the change of the country's political system in 1990 that enthusiastic people revived this tradition.
Hungary was the first country on the European continent where, already
in 1875, Count Elemér Batthyány, (the son of Hungary's first Prime Minister) gave a presentation, as a board member of the Hungarian Equestrian Association, on “playing ball on horseback” with its ‘instruments’ brought from England. Then, thanks to the efforts of Count Géza Andrássy, the polo sport was created and strengthened in the early 1880s.
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