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The game Polo used to be called “Imperial”. British Army Officers adopted local games and started to standardise the rules as “Imperial Rules” or Imperial.
Horses would be pepped up between chukkas with cocaine pills flavoured with mint, eventually the cocaine was removed and the resulting sweet was called a Mint Imperial.
It was sometimes given as a suppository hence the rounded shape.
On retiring to bungalows in Royal Tunbridge Wells the Nabobs had to reduce the size of a team from 24 to 7 they called this inferior game Polo after the disappointing Mint as a joke.