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The highly popular King's Cup Elephant Polo Tournament takes place in early September on grounds adjacent to Anantara Hua Hin Resort & Spa.

For those that don't know too much about Elephant Polo here are some fun facts for fun-filled years of trunk to trunk action:

Each elephant polo match takes a total of 14 minutes and is divided into two seven-minute 'chukkas' or halves.

The longest polo stick used in the game is 94 inches

Each fully grown elephant eats 250 kilograms of bananas every day.

The elephants on the field are street elephants. For the duration of the tournament, the elephants are given proper food and medical care that they would not necessary receive otherwise.

The tournament has raised over US$300,000 primarily for the National Elephant Institute, which provides medical care, sustenance, employment and mahout training to Thailand's elephant population.

The world's first elephant assisted therapy clinic for autistic children was sponsored by the King's Cup Elephant Polo tournaments in 2009 and 2010.

The world record for the quickest goal to be scored in a match was in 2005 when Peter Prentice scored in the first 9 seconds of play - nobody was more surprised than Peter who was oblivious he had scored the point.

The New Zealand All Blacks who had a team in 2004 were almost beaten by a Thai ladyboy team. The final score was 2-1 but the Auckland Herald headline the following day read 'All Black Greats nearly beaten by the Fairies of Siam'.

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