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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Will Rogers Polo Club finished the 2011 season with two very exciting tournaments. In the 4 goal flight of the Will Rogers Memorial Tournament, the Fair Hills team of Domingo Questal, Bill Davis, Graydon Brittan and Andrew Bossom took on Team Goel (Manny Questal, Lolo Payan, Sean Goel and Soheil Goel). After two days [...]
Release the hounds!!! The final test results came back negative and the State Animal Health Department is releasing the EHV-1 quarantine. Let’s play polo. It was real and it was fun. But it was not real fun. But it is over. Michael Manno, DVM, MS
THE GAY POLO LEAGUE PRESENTS THE 2ND ANNUAL U.S. GAY POLO TOURNAMENT The Gay Polo League (GPL) in partnership with the Empire Polo Club is pleased to announce the 2nd Annual U.S. Gay Polo Tournament will be held on Sunday, February 19th at the Empire Polo Club located in Indio, CA. Spectator entrance at Monroe [...]
It’s all good and practices continue. Hopefully, the next update will be the last one. Have fun today.
While the quarantine has been hard on the local polo clubs and players it has given the polo fields an unexpected break. This has provided a unique opportunity for the Empire Polo Club to implement some maintenance to their fields. Empire’s field crew has been busy this past week adding plaster sand and aerating [...]
The team is traveling to San Luis Obispo, CA this weekend to compete in the US Polo Association Western Region Preliminary Tournament! OC Polo hosted their first Interscholastic (IS) Polo tournament in December! The new OC Polo team WON in their debut showing! Move forward to January, the team went on the road and traveled up to [...]
January 25th, 2012 at 10:00 PM After a day long meeting with California Animal Health veterinarians and representatives from both Eldorado and Empire Polo clubs, a 21 day quarantine has been placed on the entire polo club complex and the private ranches within the boundaries. This includes the area within the square bordered by 50th [...]
