- Just tapping it 'round.

Dan Keating waiting to try and get to him.

Stuart trying to run past him.

He's got past him, he's got control of this ball as he run it through the goal.

Wow, talk about control.

I'm William Crisp and I'm the announcer for the Newport International Polo Series.

(horse neighs) (colleague chuckles) It's not that funny.

Backhand Auskie, oh, it's a miss.

A rare miss from Auskie, Chris couldn't get it.

Rory Tory picks it up.

Stuart on the gray pony goes to cover him.

Polo is this most amazing sport that requires horses.

You can play indoors, so an arena polo, which is three a side or outdoors, which is four a side and each person rides a horse and you try and hit a little white ball with a bamboo stick that's like 50 inches long with a wooden head and the ball is made of a hard plastic.

It's about three and 1/2 inches in diameter.

So not the biggest thing to hit when you're galloping along on a horse and then the opposition are allowed to bump into you on their horses and they're allowed to hook your stick too.

So it's quite active and you've gotta get your horse to the ball and once you get there, you've gotta hit it.

Chris tries to overcut it, runs over the top of the ball.

Minnie trying to get to it, she's pushing hard.

Put your stick down, Minnie, there we go.

Unfortunately comes off.

Bullis, stop the appealing, get the hitting going on.

Roger Soto misses the backhand.

Chris Ragameni, are you kidding me?

He's got a tough pony he's on.

Oh, Lucio gets in the way, it's there.

Marguerite, oh, she was looking at the goal, not at the ball and missed the ball.

I was lucky enough to be playing in England and somebody said to me, "Hey William, you wanna go to Newport?

They've asked for a team from England."

"Well yeah, sure."

So I ended up captaining or bringing the team from England in the very first year.

So that was 1991, 1992 and I fell in love with Newport, as you can imagine.

I'm still in love with Newport, I still call it my hometown.

I fell in love with one of the local ladies and basically never left.

Sends a lovely shot towards the goal.

It's left there for someone.

Dan Keating gonna try and clear it, he doesn't.

Rory Tory does.

I think it's got a bad rap, the name polo.

I think a lot of people, polo is like this, you know, the kings play it or something.

It's got a posh wrap.

But you come to Newport, it's not posh at all.

It's really down to earth.

The people who are playing, one of our players is a waiter.

We've got all sorts, one is a general contractor.

Get your stick down, hook it.

There we go, pressure.

Chris Ragameni, nice backhand, anybody onto that?

Stuart Campbell.

Minnie's got the right, Minnie's got it and Minnie's gonna unload this ball if she can.

So we have a lot of women play polo, a lot of ladies.

Two weeks ago, three weeks ago, we had the ladies versus the men and the ladies won.

You're on a half-ton horse and so the difference in weight between a male and a female when they're on a half-ton horse is negligible 'cause it's a half-ton horse and if you can ride a horse, you've got the game down.

Sure, there's a little bit of a strength issue in hitting the ball but as long as you've got timing and you can, you know, they play just as hard as the men and there's some really good women players out there in the world.

I mean, it's really good.

I mean, they're better than a lot of the men.

Runs over the top, there goes the 7:30 bell ending the first chucker.

The teams will go off and change their ponies.

If you can imagine that each pony runs probably one to two miles every chucker.

They're very fit, they're very well looked after.

So they'll go off for a break and then a pony is well capable of doing a second chucker.

Each player has a minimum of three horses and many of them will have six.

I'm really conscious of trying to bring the spectators into the game.

It's hard because it's polo.

So a lot of people don't know the rules and like in polo, they change ends after every goal, not after each quarter or halftime.

So people will be watching and go "Whoa, I thought we were going that way.

What's going on here?"

So I try really hard to make polo as simple as possible for people to understand the game and really be able to get into it and so they get into the supporting of a team and so that's my real aim is to get enjoyment to the fans that come.

Not even a grass stain to wash off.

- Okay, where are you going?

- We'll hope for better falls later on.

They're always interesting.

Yeah, Rory, you had to go across the line about four times there.

I know you don't think you did but you did and guess what?

The whistle goes, the clock will stop and we'll hang around for another 10 minutes while they make up their mind what they're gonna do.

We're gonna need headlights on the cars if we don't get this game over with soon.

I was really looking forward to this last chucker.

I thought it was gonna go absolutely flat out.

Just shows that I know absolutely nothing.

(electronic beep) (commentator laughs) Did somebody mention a certain examination?

Really, another whistle.

I have no idea for what this time.

I think people enjoy my type of commentating.

I think I'm quite dry.

I have probably a Monty Python-esque sort of weird humor, which amazingly, thank you, Monty Python people get and so yeah, I enjoy my weirdness.

My mother called me Thumper when I was younger after the rabbit in "Bambi" where she says "Thumper, if you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all."

And I still probably should be called Thumper 'cause I still say what I think.

Is impeded, Rory Tory's trying to turn it.

Leo does well to stop him.

Can Campbell get on this ball?

It's under there, unlucky for him, it gets popped out.

Minnie tries to turn it the other way and in comes Sam Clements and the whistle goes.

This is when the F-bomb goes.

(commentator laughs) Oh, that was terrible.

He's lost control of it again.

- [Justin] You're commentating is a bit biting towards some of the players.

Do you ever get any reactions to that?

- What do you mean a bit biting?

I only say what I see.

It might needle the players a little bit or even the umpire a little bit.

But the spectators see what I'm saying and they enjoy a little giggle laugh maybe.

Freeman, Cole's turning it.

Runs over the top.

(bell rings) There goes the 7:30 bell ending the first chucker.

You know, polo came to Newport in 1876.

So it's almost three years to its 150th anniversary.

So I think my goal is to stay alive that long before maybe somebody will take me out.

I'm not gonna be rude to Putin or anything 'cause I don't want no assassins coming.

So as long as nobody takes me out before then, I'm gonna go on for another three years at least.

I enjoy it, so while I can still see, I'll carry on doing it.

Right, sweaty hand-slapping time, gentlemen.

Ladies and gentlemen, if you want to get sweated on by a smelly polo player, now's your opportunity and I can't believe how many of you line up for this torture.

But here comes Dan Keating to show his appreciation for your support and thank you so much everybody for coming.

(spectators clapping) Sorry it was a slow game.