Elephant polo Elephant polo Elephant polo is a variant of polo played while riding elephants. It is played in Nepal, Rajasthan (India), and Thailand. England and Scotland regularly field teams. Equipment consists of a standard polo ball and six to ten foot cane (similar to bamboo) sticks with a polo mallet head on the end. The pitch is three-quarters of the length of a standard polo pitch, due to the lower speed of the elephants. Two people ride each elephant; the elephants are steered by mahouts, while the player tells the mahout which way to go and hits the ball. Elephant polo
The Elephant Ride The Elephant Ride "The Elephant Ride" is a song by the British new wave band Squeeze. It was written by Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook, and it appeared on their 1982 album "Sweets from a Stranger". Glenn Tilbrook said, "This is one of my favorite songs. It's beautiful and very much influenced by The Beach Boys in its arrangement, if not the tune. I'd been listening to "Pet Sounds" an awful lot at the time and this was one of the songs where rather than oppose the mood of the lyric, I tried to reflect it." Chris Difford said, "This