The Cholderton Estate also earns
revenue by caring for polo ponies over the winter. There are up
to 80 polo ponies here until March each year.
This is a good use of the grasslands
in winter, and a reasonable income earner. The ponies are checked
at least once a day, and their supplies of water and hay are carefully
monitored, but otherwise they need little in the way of supervision,
apart from obvious security considerations. Each owner's ponies
are kept in individual fields to prevent fighting between horses
as they can be aggressive towards others from a different herd.
The owners are delighted with the
care that their ponies receive and come back to Cholderton on
a year-by-year basis.
