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The tastes of summer: polo, Pimm’s and plenty of Champagne

20 July 2019

9:00 AM

20 July 2019

9:00 AM

England. On a glorious summer afternoon in the Sussex countryside, I had been invited to watch polo at Cowdray Park, the game’s equivalent of Lord’s. A beautiful lawn, overlooked by the ruins of a great Elizabethan house burnt down in the 1790s; a sky with gentle, Constable clouds; classically English trees — this is Glyndebourne with ponies instead of music.

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