Polo - you got them all obviously. Polo is also known as the sport of kings, but you didn't really need to know that anyway because of the strong royal connection.
Was having great difficulty coming up with a good final clue. Settled on ellipsoids because I just couldn't see any scenario where drill wasn't picked if I went for circular or round or whatever. That, and I liked the idea of Prip being on the losing end of another ellipsoid bomb
It ended up pretty much as I expected, with you getting 3/4 and then having to flip for the final one (although I didn't expect wheel to be one of them). Then hopefully you could pick up hook as the word you discussed as possibly being a polo term.
Bit of a longshot, but not much I could do with jm3 firing off a 5-bomb to start. Just had to hope for a red error, but it never came. Gg all.