Chinese players from the Metropolitan #Polo Club team, in white, and players from the United States and Great Britain play an exhibition match at the Tianjin Goldin Metropolitan Polo Club on July 17, 2016 in Tianjin, #China. China's rising affluence has nurtured growing interest in polo and other past-times regarded as noble or prestigious by the country's elite. Clubs and international-size polo fields have been built in various cities including Beijing and Shanghai, and on the outskirts of Tianjin, where membership at the exclusive #Goldin Metropolitan, China's largest polo club, is by invitation-only and fees can be significant for polo team owners. Increasingly, wealthy Chinese parents are choosing polo and other equestrian activities for their children as a way to bolster their credentials for admission to top-tier universities in the United States and the United Kingdom. While the so-called 'sport of kings' became a mainstay in Hong Kong during the era of British rule, polo is a ...