The Western Australian Polo Association is the governing association of polo clubs in Western Australia.
The Western Australian Polo Association was founded in 1903. [1] As polo historian Horace A. Laffaye reminds us, this happened seven years after the establishment of the first polo club in Western Australia, the Perth Polo Club, in 1896. [1] Indeed, polo had first been played at the Fremantle Hunt Club in Fremantle as early as 1892, almost ten years before the establishment of the Western Australian Polo Association. [1]
The association is a member of the Australian Polo Federation. [2] It comprises all polo clubs registered with the Australian Polo Federation which are based in Western Australia. Historically, this included polo clubs in the Goldfields-Esperance region, Cue or Geraldton and several other locations. [1] However, it currently only comprises five polo clubs:
The current President is Greg Johnson. [3] It is headquartered in Serpentine. [4]
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