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NewsLetter N° 164 - Wednesday, September 3, 2014
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Valiente & Huntsman
Sotogrande Gold Cup
& Triple Crown
winners
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Photo: Gonzalo Etcheverry/SMPC
Facu & Adolfito (match of the year)
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Royal Barrière wins
Deauville Gold Cup
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Tomy Rinderknech
Royal Barrière Captain
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â–ºDeauville
Deauville International Polo Club
Coupe d'Or / Gold Cup / 12 hcp
Royal Barriere wins one of the most important and traditional European Polo Cups. The Coupe d'Or - Lucien Barriere 2014 was conquered with category by the team of Tomy Rinderknecht, superbly well accompanied by three young Argentine talents. An outstanding performance of the whole team that finished unbeaten on an impressive collective work from Martin Aguerre, Facundo Fernandez Llorente, and Tuki Ruiz Guiñazú. The Marques de Riscal team that also reached the final undefeated, began taking the lead with a three goal advantage in the opening minutes of the match. Royal Barriere manages to focus after few minutes of distraction, and scoring 9 consecutive goals, took an advantage of 6 goals that maintained until the fifth chukker. Marque de Riscal attempted a recovery in the last chukker, but the difference was really big. A great victory deservedly achieved by a team that worked perfectly together.
Results:
Sunday, August 31
Final: Royal Barrière 13 vs. Marques de Riscal 10
Royal Barriere: 2-3, 5-3, 9-3, 9-4, 12-6, 13-10
MVP: Martin Aguerre Jr
BPP: "Enana" played by Patricio Cieza
Teams:
Royal Barriere: Thomas Rinderknecht 0, MartÃn Aguerre jr. 5, Facundo Fernández Llorente 4, Nicolas "Tuki" Ruiz Guiñazú 3. Total 12.
Marqués de Riscal: A. Aznar 1, LuÃs Aznar 0, Patricio Cieza 5, Pedro Soria 6. Total 12 goles.
Equipe de France: Florent Garaud 2, J. Reynes 2/A.Legallo 2, Thibault Guillemin 3, Piere-H. N’Goumou 5. Total 12.
Talandracas: Alfonso Pieres jr. 4, Hughues Carmignac 0, Pablo Pieres 8, Edouard Carmignac 0. Total 12.
Vicomte A: Ch. Allemandou 0, Alex Sztarkman 1, DarÃo Muzzo 7, Edouard Pan 4. Total 12.
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Photo: Deauville Polo Club
Tuki Ruiz Guiñazú, Facu F. LLorente, Martin Aguerre jr. Tomy Rinderknecht
Winners Team Royal Barriere
Coupe d'Or / Deauville International Polo Club
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â–ºSotogrande
Santa Maria Polo Club
Copa de Oro Bulgari / High Goal 22 hcp
Valiente is the champion of the Gold Cup.
The team of American Bob Jornayvaz defeated Ellertson in a grand Final under the watchful eyes of thousands of spectators.
Valiente, in their first season in Sotogrande, obtained the Triple Crown taking home the Bronze Cup Isolas, Silex Silver Cup and the Gold Cup Bulgari.
Six chukkas at full speed, spectacular level of play and lots of excitement. Valiente and Ellertson, changed goal for goal throughout the match and only in the last chukker Cambiaso with two master plays, pulled a two-goal lead, and then scoring a third one when were missing only few seconds, when Ellertson had already stopped, seeing that time was running out.
Lechuzas Caracas won the subsidiary cup.
Results:
Wednesday, August 27
Semifinals
Valient 16 vs. RH 10
Ellerston 14 vs. King Power 12
Saturday, August 30
Subsidiary Final: Lechuzas Caracas 10 vs. Halcyon Gallery 8
Final Gold Cup: Valiente 14 vs. Ellerston 11
Valiente: 3-2/ 6-5/ 8-8/ 9-9/ 10-10/ 14-11
Umpires: D. Boudou/ P. Wright – J. Appleby
MVP (Memorial Javier Novillo Astrada award): Adolfo Cambiaso
BPP: "One MagnÃfica", played by Facundo Pieres
Teams:
Valiente: Robert Jornayvaz 1, Santiago Laborde 5, Adolfo Cambiaso 10 , Santiago Torres 6. Total 22.
Ellerston: Thomas Brodie 1, Gonzalo Pieres 10, Facundo Pieres 10, James Packer 1. Total: 22
King Power: Alejandro Muzzio 8, Top Srivaddhanaprabba 0, Marcos Di Paola 8, M. Espain 6. Total 22
RH: Ben Soleimani 0, Nicolás Pieres 9, Facundo Sola 8, Santiago Von Wernich 5. Total 22.
Lechuza Caracas: Victor Vargas 1, Francisco Elizalde 7, Juan Martin Nero 10, Matt Perry 4. Total: 22
Halcydon Gallery: Charles Hanbury 4, Juan Chavanne 5, Guillermo Terrera 8, Max Routledge 5. Total 22.
Murus Sanctus: Corine Ricard/Roger Carlson 0, Lucas James 8, Jaime G. Huidobro 8, Malcom Borwick 6. Total 22.
La Indiana: Michael Bickford 1, Marcos Araya 6, John Paul Clarkin 8 y Juan Zavaleta 7. Total 22.
Dos Lunas: Luis Domecq 3, Pascual S.de Vicuña 6, AgustÃn G.Grossi 7, MartÃn Iturraspe 6. Total 22.
Ayala: Iñigo Zobel 1, Santiago Stirling 4, Diego Cavanagh 7, David Stirling jr. 10 . Total 22.
HB Polo: Ludovic Pailloncy 1, Ignacio Toccalino 8, Juan I. Merlos 9, Sebastien Pailloncy 3. Total 21.
Las Monjitas: Camilo Bautista 0, Tomás F.Llorente 5, Eduardo N.Astrada 9 y Alejandro N.Astrada 8. Total 22.
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Photo: Gonzalo Etcheverry/SMPC
Snti Torres, Robert Jornayvaz, Santi Laborde, Adolfo Cambiaso
Winners Team Valiente
Santa Maria Polo Club
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â–ºSotogrande
Santa Maria Polo Club
Copa de Oro Bulgari / Medium Goal 12 hcp
Equus well deserved champion, for the second consecutive year, of the Gold Cup Casablanca in the Medium Handicap after clearly beating the FCT team on last friday's Final. Mahra Esperanza Subsidiary Cup champion after defeating Lebeau Courally.
Results:
Monday 26
Subsidiary Semifinals:
Lebeau-Courally 9 vs. Silex 8
Mahra/Esperanza 11 vs. ESaint Mesme 9
Semifinals Gold Cup:
Equus 16 vs. Woodchestre 11
FCT 8 vs. Seven Sevens 7
Friday 29
Subsidiary Final: Lebeau-Courally 9 vs. Mahra/Esperanza 16
Final Gold Cup: Equus 15 vs. FCT 8
Umpires: P. Wright / E. Ferrari – D. Boudou
Teams:
Equus: Peter Silling 0, Juan Britos 5, James Beim 7, Hugo Lewis 0. Total 12.
FCT: Roger Carlsson 0, Mario Gómez 4, Michel del Carril 7, Sebastian Hancock 1. Total 12.
Seven Sevens: Dimitri Vozianov 0, Tomás Garbarini 4, Nicolás Espain 7 , Nikita Vozianov1. Total 12.
Los Dragones: Yago Espinosa de los Monteros 2, Diogo Gallego 4,Pablo Spinacci 6, Andrew Nutty 0. Total 12.
Mahra - Esperanza: Rashid Al Habtoor 0, Patricio Neves 4, Guillermo Cuitiño 6, Kevin Korst 2. Total 12.
Woodchester: Thady Duff 0, Pelayo Berazadi 4, Craig Mckinney 1, Juan "Tito" Ruiz Guiñazú 7. Total: 12.
Leones: Petrus Fernandini 1, Ricky Trujillo 3, Guillermo Li 5, Ignacio Domecq 3, Total 12.
Scapa - John Smith: Michael Redding 1, Juan Greguoli 4, Juan Lozada 6, Gabriel Aguirre 1. Total 12.
Silex: Richard Fagan 1, Juan J. Storni 5, Santiago Cernadas 6, Felipe Serra 0. Total: 12.
Sapphire - Dr. A: Abdelrahman Abbar 0, Maximiliano Malacalza 4, Tomás Pieres 7, Lawrence Isola 1. Total: 12.
El Rosario: Alejandro Peñafiel 0, Juan Zubiaurre 4, Salvador Ulloa 7, NN 1. Total: 1
Wild Orchids: Raya Sidorenko 0, Santiago Tanoira 6, Gerardo Mazzini 6, Zhana Bandurko 0. Total: 12
Sainte Mesme: Corentin Le Pape 2, Robert Strom 3, Clemente Zavaleta 6, Birger Strom 1.Total: 12
Marques de Riscal: Luis Aznar 0, Patricio Cieza 5, Pedro Soria 6, Alejandro Aznar 1. Total: 12
Lebeau-Courally: Ian Galliene 1, Ali Paterson 3, Cristian Bernal 5, Gaetan Charloux 3. Total: 12
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Photo: Gonzalo Etcheverry/SMPC
James Beim, Hugo Lewis, Peter Silling, Juano Britos
Winners Team Equus
Santa Maria Polo Club
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â–ºSotogrande
Santa Maria Polo Club
Copa de Oro / Low Goal 6 hcp
Huntsman looked like they had everything under control once again as they did during all the summer, but the team Serdañola this time with Pelayo Berazadi as leader, tied the game in the last chukker in 9 goals. Despite the efforts of Serdañola, the champions of the Bronze and Silver cup, did not let this opportunity slip away, and finally they also took the Gold in a brilliant season.
Results:
Tuesday 26
Semifinals Gold Cup:
Serdeñola 12 vs. Valdeparras 7
Huntsman 13 vs. Silex 10
Friday 29
Subsidiary Final: Shakhib Polo 6 vs. Bayswater 3
Final Gold Cup: Huntsman 11 vs. Serdeñola 9
Umpire: J. Appleby
Teams:
Huntsman: Aristide Faggionato 0, Dillon Bacon 1, Felipe Gómez 1, Iván Maldonado 4. Total: 6.
Sardeñola: Daniel Entrecanales 0, José Trenor 2, Miguel Amieva 4, Arturo Figar 0. Total: 6.
Silex: Rosendo Torreguitar 0, Alvaro Ãlvarez 2, Santiago Torreguitar 3, Richard Fagan 1. Total: 6.
Shakib Polo: Sebastien Aguettant 0, Mariano Iturrioz 2, Alvaro Ara 4, Kaveh Shakib 0. Total: 6.
Bayswater: Pablo Mora 1, Francisco G. Melero 1, Segundo Fernández Llorente 4, Ramón Beca 0. Total: 6.
Valdeparras: Carlos Roca 0, Jorge Espinosa 1, Diogo Gallego 4, Jaime Espinosa de los Monteros 1. Total: 6.
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Photo: Gonzalo Etcheverry/SMPC
Winners Team Huntsman
Santa Maria Polo Club
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An unforgettable Game
On Saturday 30th August, Sotogrande closed their 2014 polo season.
As always there were a lot of games for a whole month, a month that seemed to be relentlessly endless. Every single day was a polo day ; high, medium and low.
In addition to the record number of players, teams and horses, we also witnessed a very special record, the winners of the high and low goal (Valiente & Huntsmann) took the triple crown.
In the low handicap Hantsman team finished undefeated, really playing at a much higher level than all of their opponents. In the medium, while Equus, did not finish unbeaten but in the three Tournaments lost only one game!, an unrivalled achievement ,wining Silver and Gold.
The high Goal was really very high level. An extremely competitive tournament with teams coming better prepared and better organized every year. This year five 10 goallers competed.
The Final was an incredible game, a much overused adjective but in this case entirely appropriate. Many people said that it was the best game of polo throughout the European season 2014, but I dare say that Europe has never seen a game like this before.
Great goals ,with spectacular runs from end to end of the field, masterful plays that kept the public numbering thousands of spectators practically on their toes throughout the match. The two sides were tied throughout the match. Just before the end 20 goals had been scored but the teams were still tied with 10 a piece at the beginning of the last chukker. Gonzalito and Facundo knew that Valiente was a very solid, tough team, not only because of Cambiaso but his team mates Laborde and most especially Santi Torres were playing well above their handicaps. This made ​​them virtually unbeatable. The game hung in the balance. Finally in the last chukker Cambiaso & Co. took a two-goal lead. Facundo could have closed the gap to just one goal but would have needed another minute to play. It did not happen and Cambiaso scored once again to finish winning by three. In conclusion, Adolfo Cambiaso played a great game and great tournament and finally took home the only trophy that was missing from his trophy room, the "Sotogrande Triple Crown". Gonzalito and Facundo, knew that it was going to be very difficult right from the start, but they were really very very close.
The Polo show given by these two teams and especially by Facundo Pieres and Adolfo Cambiaso will be long remembered, most especially by those of us who had the privilege, last Saturday, of being at the Los Pinos Nº4 field in the Santa Maria Polo Club..
CMRG for PFE
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â–ºSaint-Tropez
Polo Club de St. Tropez
Open du Soleil / 12 hcp
Winners in 2012 and finalists last year Ferne Park, takes its title back by winning the Open du Soleil against F Polo Team. Los Nocheros wins the subsidiary cup in a very tight match against Saint-Tropez/PSL.
Result Sunday 17
3º place: Los Nocheros 7 vs. St Tropez 6 1/2
Final: Ferne Park 10 vs. F Polo Team 8
MVP: Philip de Groot
Umpire: Nicolas Scortichini
Teams & Ranking:
1. Ferne Park: Jonathan Rothermere 0, Tomas Beredford 2, Santiago Schinonni 3, JoaquÃn Pittaluga 7. Total 12.
2. F Polo Team: Alshair Fiyaz 0, Justin Gaunt 4, MatÃas Nigoul 4, Cément Delfosse 4. Total 12.
3. Los Nocheros: Sebastian Schebeger 1, Philip de Groot 0, Lucas Labat 6, Valentin N. Astrad 5. Total: 12
4. Saint Tropez: Corine Schuler 0, Vere Harmsworth 0, Rodrigo Rueda 6, Juan M. GarcÃa Laborde 5. Total 11.
5. Sezz: Shahé Kalaidjian 0, Louis Jarrige 1, Julian de Lusarreta 6, Marcelo Amadeo y Videla 5. Total 12.
6. Paprec: Claude Solarz 0, Pablo Sirvent 3, Gustavo Garcia del Rio 6, Ramiro Zavaleta 3. Total 12.
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â–ºGeneve
Polo Club de Veytay
Jaeger Le-Coultre Polo Master 2104 / 8 hcp
Much public attended last Sunday August 31, as usual, to witness the Final at the Club de Polo Veytey of the Jaeger-LeCoultre Polo Masters. The Lynx team retained the title won last year by beating in supplementary chukker with a good perfomance by Brieuc Rigaux, the locals of Veyaty Jaeger-LeCoultre led by Horacio F. Llorente.
Results:
5º place: Sagittarius 6 vs. EFG 4 1/2
3º place: Polo Prich 6 1/2 vs. Vt Wealth Management 4
Final: Lynx 5 vs. Veytay 4
MVP: Brieuc Rigaux
Teams & Ranking:
1. Lynx Energy: Cyrille Costes 0, Olivier Climaud 0, Ignacio Kennedy 3, Brieuc Rigaux 5. Total: 8
2. Veytay Jaeger-LeCoultre: Yasmine Luginbühl 0, Martin Luginbühl 2, Simon Luginbühl 2, Horacio F. Llorente 4. Total: 8
3. Polo Park Zürich: Sébastien Le Page -1, Juan Manuel Frascino 1, Martin Podesta jr. 3, Martin Podesta 4. Total: 7
4. VT Wealth Management: Thomas Fedier 0, Sacha Fedier 0, Rodrigo Quiroga 3, Federico Bachmann 5. Total: 8
5. Sagittarius: Edouard Costes 0, David Amar 2, Juan Zavalia 2, Gonzalo Bernal 4. Total: 8
6. EFG: Bank Robert Mehm 1, John Coast Sullenger 1, Manuel Lopez Carrion 2, Luis Maria Benmergui 3. Total: 7
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â–ºGstaad
Polo Club
Hublot Polo Gold Cup 2104 / 14 hcp
The sun began to shine just in time for the conclusion of the Hublot Polo Gold Cup Gstaad Tournament. Team E.I. Sturdza Investment Funds played spectacular polo to steal the title away from last year’s winners Team Gstaad Palace in a stunning final.
The third place play off was decided by penalties, due to a waterlogged pitch as result of an excessive downpour of rain throughout Saturday evening.
Results:
3º place: Vicomte A. 9 vs. Banque Baring 6
Final: E.I. Sturdza Investment Funds 5 vs. Gstaad Palace 3
MVP: Eduardo Menendez
Top Goal Scorer: Eduardo Menendez
BPP: "Coppola" played by Frankie Menendez
Teams & Ranking:
1. E.I. Sturdza Investment Funds: Facundo Barnetche 0, Mohammed El Sewedi 2, Eduardo Menendez 6, Frankie Menendez 6. Total: 14
2. Gstaad Palace: Gualtiero Giori 1, Silvestre Fanelli 4, Jeronimo 5, Juan M. Gonzalez 4. Total: 14
3. Vicomte A: Michael Bruggler 0, Marcelo Pascual 6, Juan Ezcurra 5, Sebastian Bernardez 2. Total: 13
4. Banque Baring Brothers Sturdza: Cedric Schweri 0, Pedro Fernandez Llorente 5, David Bernal 5, Martin Joaquin 3. Total: 13
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â–ºBerlin
Berlin Maifeld
Engel & Völkers High Goal Championship 2104 / 12 hcp.
Allianz Kundler is the German champion 2014 for the High Hcp, defeating Tailor Ton team in a tough final, played last week at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin Maifel.
Teams:
Allianz Kundler: Naomi Schröder 0, Santos Anca 6, Adrian Laplacette 5, Caesar Crasemann 1. Total 12.
Tom Tailor: Uwe Schröder 0, Tahnee Schröder 0, Gastón Maiquez 7, Christopher Mackenzie 5. Total 12.
Land Rover: MJ Ferch 0, Heino Ferch 0, Pablo Jauretche 7, Ignacio Garrahan 4. Total 11.
Perrier Jouët: Matthias Grau 0, Thomas Winter 4, Tim Ward 4, Augusto Gómez Romero 4. Total 12.
Getränke Lehmann: Nico Wollenberg 0, Moritz Gädeke 3, Sven Schneider 3, Marcelo Caivano 4. Total 10.
Engel & Völkers: Rackham Schröder 0, Christopher Winter 3, Eduardo Anca 6, Oliver Winter 2. Total 11.
ELTEC: Max Bosch 3, James Miller 1, Victorio Monteverde 3, Christopher Kirsch 3. Total 10.
Lutz Reuer: Harlad Link 0, Lucas Labat 6, Bautista Ortiz de Urbina 6, Piero Diller 0. Total 12.
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Comments & Opinion
Polo, sport par excellence of Knights and Kings has a longer history than any other sport still practiced today. It is the probably the oldest team game still exercised. Emperors encouraged the sport for training of their troops. Polo has certainly been around in one form or another since man tamed horses and played ball games.
From these dispersed roots, today’s modern game came into being practiced in many countries around the world. It is not an ordinary sport, but the King of the sport and the sport of kings.
England, the United States and Argentina, amongst others, have a rich history of tournaments and players who impressed the world at different times. It is these three countries, by tradition, quality and quantity of players and tournaments, that currently lead, control and influence the game.
However, they do so independently and no global body meets regularly to coordinate matters affecting all polo players. ( In comparison Formula 1 motor racing is a relatively modern sport and yet has been tightly coordinated for many years.) Polo remains geographically separate, each country has its rules, and the years pass and meetings too, but no global agreement has ever yet been reached. It is not just a matter of rules but of structures and powers, notably in disciplinary matters. Those countries mentioned are organized and their associations can really be said to be in control. For the rest of the Polo planet, the same cannot unfortunately be said. Tournaments may be held, even in the same country under differing rules, and when matters arise which they almost inevitably do, if and when a complaints committee exists, it is sometimes only on paper.
CMRG for PFE
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