Argentines' love for horses can be experienced in several ways: horse racing at the ''Hipódromo Argentino de Palermo'' racetrack, polo in the ''Campo Argentino de Polo'' (located just across Libertador Avenue from the ''Hipódromo''), and pato, a kind of basketball played on horseback that was declared the national game in 1953. Polo was brought to the country in the second half of the 19th century by English immigrants.