Editing Polo (section)

== The field ==
[[File:Terrains de polo et de football (US compliant).svg|thumb|Relative sizes of an association football ground and a polo field]]
The playing field is {{convert|300|by|160|yd|m|0}}, the area of approximately six [[Football pitch|soccer fields]] or nine American football fields {{convert|10|acre|hectare|}},<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-11-27 |title=Grass Polo - FIP {{!}} Federation of International Polo |url=https://fippolo.com/grass-polo/ |access-date=2025-04-22 |website=fippolo.com |language=en-US}}</ref> while arena polo is {{convert|315|by|151|ft|m}}.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Radueg |first=David |date=January 2012 |title=Polo fields |url=https://sturf.lib.msu.edu/article/2012jan16.pdf |access-date=11 March 2025 |website=FieldScience}}</ref> This is the largest playing field of any modern sport.The playing field is carefully maintained with closely mowed turf providing a safe, fast playing surface. Goals are posts which are set eight yards apart, centred at each end of the field. The surface of a polo field requires careful and constant grounds maintenance to keep the surface in good playing condition. During half-time of a match, spectators are invited to go onto the field to participate in a polo tradition called "divot stomping", which was developed not only to help replace the mounds of earth (divots) that are torn up by the horses' hooves, but also to afford spectators the opportunity to walk about and socialise.