Importation
Argentina and Sudan
Top polo ponies sourced, quarantined and shipped into Nigeria — the route we have run longer than anyone in the country.
Est. 1993 · Kaduna, Nigeria
Three decades
in the saddle.
Nigeria's oldest polo house. Argentine and Sudanese bloodstock, imported, schooled and traded from the fields of Kaduna since the Polo Professor first put us here.
1993Founded
+5Founder handicap
30 yrsKaduna tack shop
2Import countries
In memoriam · 1959 – 2025
Dawule Baba,
the Polo Professor.
He turned professional in 1982 alongside Usman Dantata, rode in England, Brazil and the United States, and carried a +5 handicap for ten unbroken years — a mark only one other Nigerian has ever matched. He founded this house in 1993 and sat on the Kaduna Polo Club Board of Trustees until his death.
Everything below stands on ground he cleared.
The house
Six lines of business,
one standard.
Trading
Buying, selling, export
Polo ponies and race horses traded across Nigeria, and exported to neighbouring countries in West Africa.
Retail
The Kaduna tack shop
Nigeria's first importer of polo equipment. Mallets, saddlery, boots and protection, on the same street for thirty years.
Academy
Learning the game
From first sitting to first tournament. Riding, stick and ball, rules of the line — taught the way the professor taught it.
Consultancy
Polo and horse welfare
Stable design, feeding and conditioning programmes, string management and welfare advisory for owners and clubs.
Projects
General contracting
The group's construction arm, delivering equestrian infrastructure and general works.
Co-founders of Play Chukka
Polo, for the next generation.
A browser polo simulation that teaches the game — chukkas, handicaps, the line of the ball — to people who have never sat on a horse. The fastest way to grow a sport is to let people play it before they can afford it.
