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Oops, I divot again! Polo returns to Santa Barbara

A small group on horseback plays polo on a green field.
Caroline Feraday
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KCLU
Santa Barbara Polo Club is one of the best in the world, and the sport returns this weekend for the season.

The sport is growing in popularity. And now it's back in Santa Barbara.

It’s the premier polo club in the western United States and has hosted royalty.

Polo returns to Santa Barbara later today!

"Polo has really grown and gotten a lot more popular," said David Sigman from the Santa Barbara Polo Club.

Sigman added that watching the sport is more accessible than people may realize.

"On Fridays, our main match is at four o'clock and it's 100% open to the public. It's free to attend this match. You show up—good luck finding a parking spot—and you can watch it for your first time on a Friday," he said.

Polo is easy to follow, according to Sigman.

"The sport is played four on four, and the team that scores the most goals wins. The game is divided into six periods, which we refer to as chuckers, and at the halftime point, we do the traditional stomping of the divots."

Caroline joined KCLU in October 2020. She won LA Press Club's Audio Journalist of the Year Award in 2022, 2023 and 2024.

Since joining the station she's also won 10 Golden Mike Awards, 6 Los Angeles Press Club Awards, 4 National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards and a Regional Edward R. Murrow Award for Excellence in Writing.

She started her broadcasting career in the UK, in both radio and television for BBC News, 95.8 Capital FM and Sky News and was awarded by Prince Philip for her services to radio and journalism in 2007.

She has lived in California for eleven years and is both an American and British citizen - and a very proud mom to her daughter, Elsie.