By Alex Webbe Click here to view photos from this weekend. Four teams took to the fields at the Empire Polo Club this past weekend in Indio, California to compete in the 10-goal Emerald Cup. Friday’s action featured an Empire (Craig Steinke, Mariano Fassetta, Ashton Wolf and Eric Hammon) team scoring an 11-6 win over [...]
By Alex Webbe Click here to view all photos from this weekend. The February 4-goal Rose Cup got underway on Friday, February 17 at the Empire Polo Club in Indio with a 13-6 Thermal (Romero Gonzalez, Dayelle Fargey, Hayward Pardue and Goyo Mariscal) win over Film Finances (Leigh Brecheen, Domingo Questal, Scotty M. Cunningham and [...]
By Alex Webbe Pony Express took an early lead but couldn’t keep the pressure on as Equuleus managed to score a last second goal in a 10-9 win in the semifinals of the 2012 George Haas Cup at the International Polo Club in Wellington Monday afternoon. Pony Express scored the first three goals of the [...]
After receiving the good news on Valentine’s Day from Dr. Mike Manno that the EHV-1 quarantine was finally lifted, the desert polo community is breathing much easier this week. Polo games have resumed, the players are playing and the storm clouds have lifted. While the entire polo community participated in the quarantine and helped monitor [...]
By Alex Webbe Thirty penalties were meted out Sunday morning in the semifinals of the George Haas Cup (the subsidiary of the Ylvisaker Cup) at the International Polo Club in Wellington as MetalTek held on for an 11-9 win over a persistent Heathcote team to earn a berth in the finals. Argentine 9-goaler Sebastian Merlos [...]
By Alex Webbe With the final week of play approaching, Altair and Mt. Brilliant made runs to secure berths in the tournament finals. Altair put together a 13-11 effort over Faraway while Mt. Brilliant scored its third straight win at the expense of Villa Del Lago. Led by eight goals from Carlitos Gracida, Altair built [...]
By Alex Webbe Yellow Cab (2-0) picked up its second consecutive win in the 2012 Sawgrass Challenge 12-goal Pro-Am at the International Polo Club Sunday morning with a 9-8 win over Goose Creek (1-1). Juan Monteverde scored the first goal of the game from the field for Yellow Cab, but Cote Zegers converted a 40-yard [...]
By Alex Webbe Although the Outback 40-goal Challenge might have taken the lion’s share of the polo publicity in the Palm Beach area, the Windsor Charity Polo Tournament at Windsor in Vero Beach had its share of celebrities and international polo stars. The Charity Polo Cup at Windsor resulted from the discussions a number of [...]
By Alex Webbe The gathering of every one of the world’s 10-goal players signaled the return of the Annual Outback 40-goal Challenge Cup at the International Polo Club in Wellington before an enthusiastic assemblage. Following the induction of former 10-goaler Carlos Gracida into the Polo Hall of Fame the previous evening, the crowd boasted polo [...]
By Alex Webbe A balanced Jan Pamela attack that had every member of the team scoring multiple goals snuck past a determined Flat Out polo team to score a 10-9 win in the 2012 Freebooters Classic at the International Polo Club Saturday morning. Flat Out received one goal by handicap from the 14-goal Jan Pamela [...]
By Alex Webbe The semifinals of the 2012 Ylvisaker Cup at the International Polo Club in Wellington are set for next Wednesday with Lucchese (4-0) and Piaget (3-1) facing off at 1 pm while Audi (4-0) and Coca-Cola take to the field in a 3 pm contest to decide this year’s finalists. Lucchese was the [...]
Sign up for Empire’s big money game! March 23rd-April 1st, 2012 Empire Polo Club offers two money games at the end of their winter season. The 8-10 Goal Champions’ Cup and the 4-Goal Lions’ Cup. There is an entry fee of $5,000 per team for the 8-10 Goal Tournament and a fee of $1000 for [...]
