Royal Winnipeg Polo Club
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he story of the Royal Winnipeg Polo Club is more like the tale of Robin Hood and his band of merry men and women, only it’s centered around the Ross Fargey sheep ranch, research lab, and polo farm in 1993. Long before that, Ross had brought polo back to Manitoba from his former life in colonial West Africa. Doing polo
2007, John Wayne shoot-out in Des Moines, IA (Gerald Levin in the lead)
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his way, he and his wife Mona started up a polo club with their neighbours in the 1970s called the Springfield Polo Club. The club caught fire quickly and expanded into a large 40-member club based in Birds Hill Provincial Park. Ross Fargey soon felt the need to move things in a more independent direction. With a handful of loyal friends and family, the Royal Winnipeg Polo Club was born back at the sheep ranch now renamed “Fargey Park”.
