International Polo Club Palm Beach

104th Stanford US Open Polo Championship - 26 Goal...

Tournament Dates: March 30 - April 20, 2008

First played in 1904 at Van Courtland Park, the U.S. Open Championship celebrated its centennial in 2004. One of the three great polo tournaments, along with the British and Argentine fixtures, the tournament attracts the finest players in the world for a month long competition. During the first half of the 20th century it was hosted in the Northeast, principally at Meadowbrook, moving in 1954 to Oakbrook, outside Chicago, where it stayed until 1978. The next eight tournaments were hosted by Retama, in San Antonio, where Memo Gracida recorded his first of a record 16 wins. Not the first in his family to do so, his father and three other Gracida's won the event for Mexico in 1946 at Meadowbrook. Set for 1987 at El Ddorado in Palm Springs, the next four Opens were played at the Horsepark, home to the USPA in Lexington. Since 1996, The U.S. Open Championship has called South Florida its home. It was here at International Polo Club Palm Beach in 2004 that Memo Gracida added to the Gracida family's combined record of 34 U.S. Open wins.

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The Schedule:
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National President's Cup Qualifier & Tournament Games in Blue
Hall of Fame Cup (Subsidiary) Games in Red

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Date		Time	Teams
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Sun.	Mar. 30	12:00 pm	Isla Carroll def. Bendabout	13-9
		3:00 pm	Skeeterville def. Zacara	11-10

Tue.	Apr. 1	12:00 pm	Black Watch def. Audi	14-10
		3:00 pm	Crab Orchard def. Orchard Hill	12-10

Wed.	Apr. 2	12:00 pm	Las Monjitas def. Lechuza Caracas	13-10
		3:00 pm	White Birch def. Pony Express	12-10

Fri.	Apr. 4	12:00 pm	Skeeterville def. Isla Carroll	12-9
		3:00 pm	Zacara def. Bendabout	11-7

Sat.	Apr. 5	12:00 pm	Crab Orchard def. Black Watch	12-11
		3:00 pm	Audi def. Orchard Hill	17-11

Sun.	Apr. 6	12:00 pm	Las Monjitas def. White Birch	11-10
		3:00 pm	Pony Express def. Lechuza Caracas	11-9

Wed.	Apr. 9	12:00 pm	Zacara def. Audi	9-8
		3:00 pm	Pony Express def. Black Watch	10-9
		5:00 pm	White Birch def. Isla Carroll	15-14

Fri.	Apr. 11	12:00 pm	Escue def. Shamrock	11-7
		3:00 pm	Bendabout def. Lechuza Caracas	13-12

Sat.	Apr. 12	10:00 am	Orchard Hill def. Isla Carroll in OT	12-11
		12:00 pm	Open Quarterfinal Crab Orchard def. Audi	13-12
		5:00 pm	Open Quarterfinal Pony Express def. Skeeterville	11-8

Sun.	Apr. 13	10:00	Villa De Lago def. Escue	12-6
		12:00 pm	Open Quarterfinal White Birch def. Zacara	16-13
		3:00 pm	Open Quarterfinal Las Monjitas def. Black Watch	13-11

Tue.	Apr. 15	12:00 pm	Lechuza Caracas def. Isla Carroll	12-8

Wed.	Apr. 16	10:00 am	Orchard Hill def. Bendabout	10-9 OT
		12:00 pm	Open Semifinal Crab Orchard def. Pony Express	12-11
		3:00 pm	Open Semifinal Las Monjitas def. White Birch	12-11

Thu.	Apr. 17	10:00 am	Villa de Lago def. Parrot Heads	14-9

Sat.	Apr. 19	3:00 pm	President's Cup Final Villa de Lago def. Saratoga	12-7
		5:00 pm	Hall of Fame Cup Final
			Orchard Hill def. Bendabout	11-10
Sun.	Apr. 20	3:00 pm	Open Final
			Crab Orchard def. Las Monjitas	15-12
			MVP: Jeff Blake BPP Finals: "Sylvia" - Adolpho Cambiaso BPP Open: "Pico Blanco" - Nacho Astrada

2008 Stanford U.S. Open Champions; Crab Orchard - L to R: Jeff Blake, Nachi Heguy,
Beverly Rawlings, Adolfo Cambiaso and George Rawlings
Photo by Alex Pacheco

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The Open Teams:

Audi

Melissa Ganzi
A

Gonzalo Pierres
9

Juan Bolini
7

Paco de Narvaez
9

25

Bendabout

Gillian Johnston
1

Miguel Novillo Astrada
10

Alejandro Novillo Astrada
7

Mariano Gonzales
8

26

Black Watch

Niel Hirsch
A

Pablo MacDonough
9

Matias MacDonough
9

Nacho Figueras
6

24

Crab Orchard

Jeff Blake
6

Nachi Heguy
9T

Adolfo Cambiaso
10

George Rawlings
1

26

Isla Carroll

Magoo Laprida
7

Marcos Di Paola
8

Facundo Pieres
10

John Goodman
1

26

Las Monjitas

Camilo Bautista
A

Eduardo Astrada
9

Javier Astrada
9

Nacho Astrada
8

26

Lechuza Caracas

Victor Vargas
1

Guille Aguero
7

Sapo Caset
8

Nicolas Espain
6

22

Orchard Hill

Steve Van Andel
A

Hector Galindo
8

Lucas Criado
9

Jeff Hall
8

25

Pony Express

Bob Daniels
A

David Stirling
8

Nicolas Roldan
8

Matias Magrini
10

26

Skeeterville

Will Johnston
1

Adam Snow
9

Julio Arellano
8

Owen Rinehart
7

25

White Birch

Martin Aguerre
4

Lucas Monteverde
9

Mariano Aguerre
10

Peter Brant
3

26

Zacara

Lyndon Lea
1

Mike Azzaro
9

Carlos Gracida
9

Pelon Escapite
5

24