If you would like to experience a polo game like no where else in the world, treat yourself to a polo match at the Big Horn Equestrian Center located just minutes from the historic town of Sheridan, Wyoming.

Nestled against the Bighorn foothills are 3 perfectly manicured emerald green polo fields which provide the stage for hundreds of thundering hoofs every Wednesday, Friday and Sunday from Memorial Day until the famous Don King Days Rodeo of Labor Day weekend.

The Big Horn Polo Club is the oldest polo club west of the Mississippi and has been active since the Calvary days of the old west. Although most cowboys were riding the range on quarter horses, the US Calvary preferred the huge heart and comfortable ride of the American Thoroughbred. Since thoroughbreds are the popular choice of most polo players, it was only natural that these military men would create a polo field out in the middle of the wild, wild west to play the sport of kings!

Many Wyoming and Montana ranchers of that time began breeding thoroughbreds specifically for the Calvary, and thoroughbred breeding is still popular in this area today.

The Big Horn Polo Club has an excellent reputation for producing strong talented stock, well rounded and unspoiled from herding cattle and calving when the summer months of polo are over. Every year buyers from Florida, Texas and California fly into this local polo club to purchase these talented and powerful animals.

There is no admission to the polo matches (except for the Don King Rodeo weekend) and tourists are always welcome to come and watch. Bring a blanket and pack a picnic lunch to enjoy while you relax on the carpets of grass or visit the club house for a drink or a soda on Sunday afternoons.