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 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 [...]
Julio Arellano scored five times as Crab Orchard (2-0) downed Valiente, 10-7, to earn a berth in next Wednesday’s semifinals of the 2010 USPA Piaget Gold Cup at the International Polo Club in Wellington. Crab Orchard and Lechuza Caracas (2-0) will face one another on Saturday, March 13 at noon to decide the semifinal seeding.
Ten-goaler [...]
Patagones took the field without 6-goal regular Carlos Avendano (broken rib), and midway through the second chukker his brother Gonzalo Avendano was sidelined. Under the command of Carlos Gracida, however and with the addition of Marianito Obregon (for Carlos Avendano) and Marianno Gracida (filling in for Gonzalo Avendano) the reshuffled Patagones (2-2) lineup scored a [...]
A balanced Lechuza Caracas (2-0) attack took advantage of four goals in the fourth chukker to gallop over a misfiring Faraway Polo (0-2) team in second round play of the Ylvisaker Cup. The match took place on the private grounds of the Lechuza Caracas Polo Club in Wellington.
The game began evenly with Faraway’s Julio Arellano [...]
By Alex Webbe
Daily News Polo Columnist
The first round of the Ylvisaker Cup saw three more games take place on Sunday with The Wanderers/Isla Carroll taking the early game from Patagones 11-7 followed by a one goal Lechuza win over Yellow Cab and a Lucchese victory at the expense of Faraway Polo.
In a 10 am game [...]
By Alex Webbe
Daily News Polo Columnist
Carlos Gracida converted a penalty shot with six seconds left in regulation play as he led Patagones (1-0) to a 10-9 victory over Bendabout (0-2) Thursday afternoon in the Joe Barry memorial Cup competition at the International Polo Club in Wellington.
Patagones took an early lead and held it throughout most [...]
Venezuelan Victor Vargas has been a mainstay in United States Polo since 1999. Always a fierce competitor, Vargas is always a true gentleman on the polo field. Win or lose any major tournament he is the first to offer the “hip hip hoorah” to his competition. Vargas has captured numerous titles in the [...]
Hall of famer Gonzalo Pieres never won a U.S. Open, but today, his dream came true as he
watched his sons, Nicolas, Gonzalito and Facundo Pieres bring it home for Wellington’s own Audi, as they
captured the U.S. Open, defeating Las Monjitas 9-8 in sudden death overtime at International Polo Club Palm
Beach.
“We feel very fortunate to have [...]
