Lagos Polo Club
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| Full name | Lagos Polo Club |
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| Address | 1 Polo Rd, Off Ribadu Road. S. W. |
| Location | Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria |
| Surface | grass |
| Construction | |
| Opened | 1904 |
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Lagos Polo Club (LPC) is a polo club and event venue in Southwest Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria.[1][2][3][4]
The oldest polo club in Nigeria, Lagos Polo Club (LPC) was founded in 1904 by a team of British Naval Officers who loved the sport of horse riding and horse racing. Played on an air strip set on an old British Army Parade ground, it served as an entertainment hotspot for colonial officials who had previously played the sport in England. The Lagos Polo Club has many playing and social members. With its yearly tournaments, standard horse riding academy, and affiliations with international organisations, the club has grown to become the most famous polo club in Nigeria.[5] More Nigerians started picking up the game in the mid-20th century. Since inception, the club has grown considerably and it is now the most famous polo club in Nigeria in terms of membership and quality of polo. The club has also seen an increasing number of lady players – both professionals and patrons – highlighting the rise in women's polo across the globe. The Lagos Polo Club is a private members’ club and its affiliated with the Nigerian Polo Association (NPA). The LPC adheres to the Hurlingham Polo Association (HPA) rules at all in-house and international polo tournaments. In 2019, Lagos Polo Club launched its Riding Academy which is aimed to teach the public horse riding with a view of playing polo. The Lagos Polo Club's Eden Project involves massive landscape transformation with tree planting of over 160 trees around the club and its environment to re-create a new vista in the heart of Ikoyi, support and strengthen the climate and ecosystem's resilience. The Eden Project is a means to improve the environment, air quality in a sustainable manner.[6] For several decades, the Lagos Polo club has also been a social spot for Nigeria's elites.[7][4][8][9][10][11]