With Crab Orchard’s 13-8 win over Audi in the finals of the 2010 United States Open Championship Sunday afternoon at the International Polo Club in Wellington, it became the first team to will all three trophies in the same season.
It was in 2007 that Crab Orchard won both the U. S. Open and the Gold [...]
The prospect of brother playing brother in serious high goal polo isn’t rare, but the chance of five brothers taking the field at the same time is. Thursday morning. In a preliminary match of the 2010 US Open Championship, Camilo Bautista’s Las Monjitas team faced Bob Jornayvaz’s Valiente foursome with the five Astrada brothers taking [...]
Audi 10-goaler Facundo Pieres scored twelve goals Wednesday afternoon against previously unbeaten Orchard Hill in a 16-12 win in the 2010 Arcalux United States Open Championship at the International Polo Club.
Facundo scored the first five goals of the game before brother Gonzalo added a goal for Audi , the 2009 defending US Open Champion, in [...]
In a match many considered to be a prelude to this year’s finals of the United States Polo Association’s Open Championship, sponsored by Arcalux, Adolfo Cambiaso and his Crab Orchard team faced off against the two Pieres brothers, Facundo and Gonzalito and their Audi teammates in the opening rounds of play.
Following Crab Orchard’s two earlier [...]
The 2010 Arcalux 106th United States Open Championship got off to an exciting if one-sided start as Orchard Hill and Audi both routed their opponents in the opening round of play Sunday afternoon at the International Polo Club in Wellington.
Steve Van Andel’s Orchard Hill team handed Piaget an embarrassing 17-8 drubbing while the 2009 defending [...]
It was the second semifinals of the 2010 USPA Piaget Gold Cup between Lechuza and Las Monjitas at the International Polo club in Wellington when it happened. Las Monjitas led 9-8 with 2:27 left in the game when the accident occurred. A slightly off balance Eduardo Astrada swung for a backhand shot when horse and [...]
Audi rallied to outscore Valiente 6-2 in the final three chukkers of the game to take home an 11-9 win in Piaget Gold Cup competition, racking up its first win of the tournament against two losses.
The 2009 defending US Open Champion had fallen on hard times, losing its two opening games to Crab Orchard and [...]
The arrival of Khloe and Kourtney Kardashian (of the reality television show on E Entertainment, Keeping up with the Kardashians), at the International Polo Club in Wellington wasn’t enough to disrupt the 2010 USPA Piaget Gold Cup action, but it did provide some pre-game entertainment for any early-arriving polo fans.
Staging the trappings of a polo [...]
CHOMBA
sex: mare
color: Liver Chestnut
Age: 8 yrs old
This very athletic polo pony is from Argentina and belongs to 10-goaler Mariano Aguerre. Chomba won Best Playing Pony at both the 2008 and 2009 Mercedes-Benz Cup in the Hamptons. Aguerre played on the winning team (La Dolfina) in the 2009 Argentina Open – making it his 17th Arg. Open played, [...]
“They left it all on the field,” said polo veteran Mimi Gracida, wife of Memo and mother of Patagones 4-goaler Julio Gracida. “It was a great contest,” she added.
Zacara had just finished hander her son’s Patagones a 10-9 loss in the final seconds of play in a game that included injured players and game delays [...]
Zacara rode onto the Piaget Field at the International Polo Club just a week after winning the 2010 Joe Barry memorial Cup with an exciting 13-1 win over the Hawks and couldn’t look much better. After scoring a 12-5 Ylvisaker Cup win over Bendabout just four days earlier, the English sponsored team scored a decisive [...]
