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NewsLetter N° 137 - Tuesday February 4, 2014
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Argentine handicaps changes
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â–ºST. MORITZ
30th Polo World Cup on Snow 2014
Cartier Trophy
Cartier Polo Team once again in a spectacular Final wins the St Moritz World Cup on Snow.
An exciting match with no goals until the third chukker and under a heavy snowfall this extraordinary Final was played to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Polo in St Moritz. After five intense chukkas the match between Cartier and Ralph Lauren ended tied at 1 goal, and was defined in the sixth chukker (additional) with a golden goal. For the Final of the bronze Cup Deutsche Bank, BMW defeated the Deutsche Bank Team.
Results:
Bronze Cup: BMW 5 vs. Deutsche Bank Team. 4
Final: Cartier 2 vs. Ralph Lauren 1 (golden goal)
MVP: Michael Bickford (Amateur Player)
MVP: Hissam Ali Hyder (Professional Player)
BPP: "Lode" , played by Nacho Figueras
Teams & Ranking:
1. Cartier: Jonathan Ford 0, Max Charlton 6, Chris Hyde 6, Hissam Ali Hyder 6. Total 18.
2. Ralph Lauren: Michael Bickford 1, Jamie Morrison 3, Ignacio Figueras 6, Ruki Baillieu 7. Total 17.
3. BMW: Richard Davis 0, Jonny Good 5, John P. Clarkin 8, Tarquin Southwell 4. Total 17.
4. Deutsche Bank: Karan Thapar 0, Ryan Pemble 5. Glen Gilmore 7, Oliver Hipwod 5. Total 17
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ST. Moritz Polo World Cup 2014
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â–ºCOURCHEVEL
BMW Polo Masters Tour Courchevel 2014
With the tournament played last weekend in Courcheval finished the 2014 Snow Polo in the French winter season for the BMW Polo Masters Tour, that started in Val d'Iser two weeks ago and then in Megève.
Despite the difficult weather conditions they were able to play the final matches, and for the 3º place the teams of BMW and Julian Joailliers De Grisogono fought hard in the haze to finally finish with the score tied.
The Big Final with the same adverse conditions, was very matched and fought to the last second, that finally won the team Ski Boheme with a golden goal, and thus they took the last Master of 2014.
Results:
3er place: BMW 8 vs. Julian Joailliers De Grisogono 8
Final: Ski Boheme 7 vs. Save the Rich 6 (Golden Goal)
MVP: Brieuc Rigaux
BPP: Valeria
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© Morgane Delfosse
BMW Polo Master Courchevel
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1. Ski Bohême: Cyrille Costes 0, Brieuc Rigaux 5, T.Vetois 3. Total; 8
2.Save the Rich: Claude Solarz 0, Clèment Delfosse 4, Edouard Pan 4. Total: 8
3. BMW: Alexandre Sztakman 1, Robert Strom 4, Stanislas Clavel 3. Total: 8
3. Julian Joailliers de Grisogono: Laurent Dassault 0, Matthieu Delfosse 4, Patrick Paillol 4. Total: 8
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© Morgane Delfosse
Edouard Pan & Patrick Paillol
BMW Polo Masters Courchevel
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â–ºPATTAYA
Thai Polo & Equestrian Club
Thai Polo Master
With the participation of 4 teams was completed on Sunday February 2 the Thai Polo Master with the victory of Adamas. The team of the Patron Paul Cheung wins the tournament by defeating in the Final the home team from Thai Polo. Despite of the great effort from Lucas Labat well accompanied by the young Thai player Nu Suphachai Sukhampha, could not subdue the strong team of Adamas with three professional players.
Adamas was from the third chukker that dominated the game and pulled a difference unreachable, for the locals. The previous day in the semifinals Thai Polo Team playing a great game defeated the Macau team and Adamas did so with Maple Leaf. On Sunday and for third place in a very entertaining match Macau took the victory against Maple Leaf.
Results:
3er place: Macau/22BR 8 vs. Maple Leaf 6
Macau: 2 - 0, 3 - 2, 6 - 2, 8 - 6
Final: Adamas 9 vs. Thai Polo 5 1/2
Adamas: 2 - 3 1/2, 4 - 4 1/2, 6 - 5 1/2, 9 - 5 1/2
MVP: Nu Suphachai Sukhampha
BPP: "Castaña" played by Lucas Labat
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© Estefania Etchart
Thai Polo Master
Thai Polo & Equestrian Club
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Teams & Ranking:
1. Adamas: Paul Cheung 0, Adrien Le Gallo 2, Damian Marcos 2, Mariano Raigal 4. Total: 8
2. Thai Polo: Isabel Morgenstern 0, Ingo Morgenstern 0, Nu Suphachai Sukhampha 0, Lucas Labat 6. Total: 6
3. Macau/22BR: Rodrigo Castro 0, Claude Haberer -1, Manuel Cereceda 3, Pedro Fernandez Llorente 5. Total: 7
4. Maple Leaf: Everest Munro 0, Claudia Zeisberger 0, Julian Sagarna 3, Huzaini Yunoz 4. Total: 7
Umpire: César Ruiz Guiñazú
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© Estefania Etchart
Champions Team Adamas
Mariano Raigal, Adrian Le Gallo, Paul Cheung, Damian Marcos
Thai Polo Master
Thai Polo & Equestrian Club
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â–ºPALM BEACH
International Polo Club Palm Beach
The Ylvisaker Cup
After being postponed the beginning of the Ylvisaker Cup due to rain, finally was able to play last Sunday at the International Polo Club Palm Beach the first game between Palm Beach Illustrated and Coca-Cola.
Resuls to date:
Sun 2: Palm Beach Illustrated 11 vs. Coca-Cola 10
Mon 3 : CT Energia 11 vs. Los Machitos/Heathcote 12
Mon 3: Faraway 14 vs. Villa del Lago/Casablanca 15
Group 1
Tonkawa: Jeff Hidebrand A, Gonzalo Pieres Jr, 10, Rodrigo Ribeiro de Andrade 8, Tomás Alberdi 2. Total 20.
Faraway Polo: Hutton Goodman A, MartÃn Pepa 5, Santiago Chavanne 8, Mariano González 7. Total 20.
Flight Options: Melissa Ganzi A, Juan Bollini 5, Miguel Novillo Astrada 9, Freddie Mannix 6. Total 20.
Group 2
Villa del Lago/Casablanca: Jim Zanni 0, AgustÃn Obregón 4, Pablo Pieres Jr. 9, Iñaki Laprida 7. Total 20.
Orchard Hill: Steve Van Andel A, Lucas Criado 8, Facundo Pieres 10, Marcos Alberdi 2. Total 20.
Lechuza Caracas: VÃctor Vargas 1, Mariano Gracida 3, Juan MartÃn Nero 10, M. Espain 6. Total 20.
Group 3
Las Monjitas: Camilo Bautista A, Gerónimo Obregón 3. Eduardo Novillo Astrada 9, Alejandro Novillo Astrada 8. Total 20.
Audi: Marc Ganzi 1, Carlos Gracida Jr. 3, Nicolás Pieres 8, Nicolás Roldán 8. Total 20.
CT Energia: Alessandro Bazzoni 1, Kris Kampsen 6, Joao Paulo Ganon 7, Nick Manifold 5. Total 19
Los Machitos/Heathcote: Steve Lefkowitz A, Steling Giannico 3, Mariano Aguerre 9, MatÃas Magrini 8. Total 20.
Group 4
Valiente: Bob Jornayvaz 1, Santiago Torres 6, Adolfo Cambiaso 10, Tomás Garbarini 3. Total 20
Coca Cola: Guillian Johnston 2, Jeff Hall 7, Julio Arellano 9, Nick Morrison 2. Total 20.
Palm Beach Illustrated: Jared Zenni 2, Tommy Collingwood 4, Cristián Laprida 8, Facundo Obregón 6. Total 20.
El Caburé: Federico Virasoro 2, Carlos Arellano 5, AgustÃn Merlos 9, Stevie Orthwein 4. Total 20.
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â–ºDUBAI
Dubai Polo & Equestrian Club
The Mc Laren Silver Cup
On Saturday February 1 began in Dubai, the Mc Laren Silver Cup with following results.
Results to date:
Bin Drai 10 vs. Abu Dhabi 9
Desert Palm 2 6 vs. Habtoor 5
Ghantoot 10 vs. Zedan 8.
Teams:
Group A
Abu Dhabi: Faris Al Yabhouni 0, Juan J. Storni 5, Alfredo Capella 8, Victorio Monteverde 3. Total 16.
Bin Drai Polo: Saeed Bin Drai 0, Tomas Iriarte 4, Manuel Fernandez Llorente 6, Raul Laplacette 6. Total 16.
Desert Palm 1: Rashid Al Bawardi 2, Martin Valent 5, Facundo Castagnola 6, Ali Paterson 3. Total 16.
Group B
UAE Polo Team: HH Sheikhn Maitha 0, Ollie Cudmore 5, Lucas Monteverde 9, Tomas Gagliardi 2. Total 16.
Habtoor Polo: Mohammed Al Habtoor 0, Francisco Elizalde 7, Guillermo Cuitino 6, Marcos Panelo 3. Total 16.
Desert Palm 2: Tarik Al Bawardi 1, Santiago Laborde 5, Alejo Taranco 6, Matias Machado 4. Total 16.
Group C
Ghantoot: HH Sheikh Bin Zayed 0,Juan Zubiaurre 4, Facundo Sola 8, Pelayo Berazadi 4. Total 16.
Mahra Polo: Rashid Al Habtoor 0, Guy Gibrat 4, Santiago Cernadas 6, Ignacio Gonzalez 6. Total 16.
Zedan Polo: Amr Zedan 0, Facundo Fernández Llorente 4, David Stirling 10, Luis Gagliardi 2. Total 16
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Comments & Opinion
Respect and Coexistence
It has already been written much about the King of Games, and especially by the peculiarity that leads to interact in the same Teams and Competitions professional players along with amateurs who rarely understand the game and the rules.
This vertiginous and risky sport where everyone who plays agrees on the unique and incomparable sensation which means to practice it, is further more complicated in these situations that does not occur in any other sport (perhaps only in sailing) where experienced and talented professionals players, who know the game and rules, must often forget their superiority and knowledge, to coexist with the inexperienced players.
As in every sport there are more characters in this movie and not left out of the discussion, we refer to the referees and umpires.
Thank God today and finally, very few tournaments are played around the world without the performance of a Professional Umpire. Therefore in tournaments of low, medium or high handicap everyone have realized and understood that it is essential that who must conduct the games should be qualified, prepared and knowledgeable of the rules.
As we need today the successful Patron to hire the stars of the sport, that we also need these professional sport men who train every day knowing with the hellish competition that have to struggle in these days, there are also strictly necessary the professional Umpires.
These gentlemen in the vast majority are very experienced former players, which have been prepared by the most representative and recognized World Federations such as the U.S.P.A., H.P.A. and of course the Asociacion Argentina de Polo, they have a task of great responsibility, and for that are trained.
In a game listed as a "Sport of Gentlemen" we all play for the honour to bring the trophy home, but also is currently a sport where there are many interests for the money involved and that is certainly also a very high risk sport, and in our opinion it is essential for everyone to respect the authority instead of protesting and complaining without reason and partially.
So Dear Ladies & Gentlemen Patrons: we need you in order to keep the sport alive, recognising both players and referees as Professionals in their respective roles.
Dear Ladies & Gentlemen Professional Players: do not neglect the practices and daily workouts, and do not argue with umpires, you are not helping with that attitude and finally would prejudice you on one way or another.
Dear Gentlemen Umpires: have proper attitudes to keep calm a game that is very risky, and especially take care and be patience with Patrons who do not know the rules properly and with the Professionals Players who under pressure they discuss looking for excuses.
In all areas and environments of life there are rude and arrogant people, but inside of the polo fields we do not need them.
PFE
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