Five women mounted on elephant-back and wearing red devil horns atop their helmets raised their polo sticks in unison and let forth a primal scream. Here, on a humid March afternoon along the banks of ...

CHIANG RAI, Thailand (Reuters Life!) - Once a year, polo takes on jumbo proportions in Thailand, with players mounting elephants instead of horses to help an even bigger cause: saving the country's ...

It was a week these elephants will never forget. Fifty-one of the massive animals took a break from their day jobs last week to compete in an international elephant polo match in Thailand. This year, ...

“The elephant is considered auspicious in Thailand,” says my guide Tim as we pass a huge hoarding with a smiling, virulently-pink Ganesha. We have been driving through a Bangkok landscape of flyovers, ...

CULVER — A man from Culver is getting the chance of a lifetime. He is going to play polo in Thailand this spring, but he won't be riding on a horse. Dave Partridge is from Culver, Indiana and he will ...

A British female sporting team are celebrating international victory as they take home the World Cup for Elephant polo . Samantha Prentice, 45, from Haddington, East Lothian scored all 27 goals and ...

Polo, the ancient team competition typically played on horseback, is known as the “sport of kings.” However, the royal version for one annual event, now underway in Thailand (through Sunday), swaps ...

An elephant polo match scheduled to be held on Saturday at Rambagh polo ground has invited the wrath of animal activists. JAIPUR: An elephant polo match scheduled to be held on Saturday at the city's ...

“Get up, get up, get up!” Raj’s clipped staccato shout echoes across the polo field. My teenage son lay sprawled on the cropped green grass, his glossy chestnut skittering to a halt with the stirrups ...

Eighteen-year-old Abey is unpredictable, has a temper and let his side down badly on Thursday when he lost focus on his polo game in southern Sri Lanka and hospitalized two of his teammates. The ...

Wildlife campaigners threaten court action over Thai elephant polo festival but organisers insist they are giving animals a 'holiday' from hardship Elephants are paraded out onto the pitch as they ...