LA CONNER — On the outskirts of the quiet and quaint town of La Conner, behind a Victorian-style home, a classic sport was revived Saturday with the sound of galloping horse hooves and the crisp tapping of wooden mallets hitting a hard plastic ball.

The sport is polo. Its players describe the sport as a mixture of soccer, hockey and bumper cars — but on horses.

“You’ve got to like danger to play polo,” said 44-year-old Trichia Johnston, who was visiting the Skagit Valley on Saturday from Yakima to compete in the Pacific Northwest Circuit Governor’s Cup Polo Tournament.