Yellow Cab drives onto Miami Beach, again

By Alex Webbe You might not see a fleet of Yellow Cabs rolling down Collins Avenue on Friday afternoon, but make no mistake about it, Simon Garber and his Yellow Cab polo team will be turning eyes on the beach as they return to Miami Beach for their third run at the pinnacle of beach [...]

Certified/Endeavor wins Palm city Open, 8-7

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By Alex Webbe Certified/Endeavor (Michael Borrico, Larry Austin, Joaquin Panelo and Nic Roldan) scored an 8-7 win over a stubborn Power Horse (Melissa Ganzi, Jason Crowder, Juan Bollini and Walter Scherb) in the finals of the Palm city Open at the Grand Champions Polo Club in Wellington Sunday morning. With the ominous threat of rain [...]

Piaget destroys Lazy P in USPA President’s Cup Finals

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By Alex Webbe Piaget (Melissa Ganzi, Juan Bollini, Jr., Juan Bollini and Leo Mandelbaum) charged out to a commanding 7-1 halftime lead over Lazy P (Wesley Finlayson, Santiago Galland, Gringo Colombres and Chuck Pugsley) before running away with the victory in the finals of the USPA National President’s Cup Saturday afternoon at the International Polo [...]

Zacara captures 2012 Nespresso US Open in a 10-8 thriller

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By Alex Webbe “I don’t know what we did,” said an excited Magoo Laprida following his team’s 10-8 win over Lechuza Caracas in the finals of the 2012 Nespresso United States Open Championships at the International Polo club in Wellington Sunday afternoon. “I’m not sure how we did it,” he grinned, but we won.” Zacara [...]

THE BIG “” 1 “” THE US OPEN FINALS LECHUZA VS ZACARA

The Polo Report By Steve Crowder Lets compare the teams and guess what NOBODY KNOWS … who is going to win. That is why people play Polo … you just never know.  Almost everything on the polo field is alive. The grass, the horses, the players and the Umpires. This makes for a lot of [...]

Certified/Endeavor to meet Power Horse in Palm City Open finals

By Alex Webbe The rain-delayed completion of the first round of the Palm city Open was finally completed on Saturday with KIG scoring a 7-3 win over Cinque Terre to end their three chukker segment of the round-robin followed by a 3-3 tie between Certified/Endeavor and Cinque Terre.  By virtue of a win and a [...]

ALL ABOUT THE WEST WITH WESTMONT AND WESTLEY IN THE COLLEGIATE FINALS

The Polo Report By Steve Crowder Two TEAMS FROM OPPOSITE SIDES OF THE COUNTRY MEET IN THE FINALS OF THE COLLEGIATE FINALS AT John T. Oxley Center located at  Cornell University.  They will play for the Title of the National Championship.  One team, UVA, comes from the land of Polo Blue Bloods and they know [...]

Power Horse tramples early competition in Palm City Open

By Alex Webbe Walter Scherb’s Power Horse team rolled over the competition in the opening round of play in the 2012 Palm City Open at Grand Champions Polo Club by defeating Elangeni Ranch 7-5 before handing La Pasion/Tuff Rider 6-2 in round-robin play. In the first matchup of the day, Power Horse rode out to [...]

Goose Creek wins 7th Chukker Cup at IPC

By Alex Webbe With the season winding down at the International Polo club in Wellington, a member’s tournament was staged for the 7th Chukker Cup with Maureen Brennan’s Goose Creek team sneaking past Santa Clara/ART by the score of 13-11½. Lining up for the Goose Creek team were Brennan, Shahir Quraeshi, Santi Torres and Brandon [...]

TWO WAYS TO DO IT TO THE FINALS AND IT IS LECHUZA AND ZACARA

Lots of doubles here Lechuza could be a 2 time winner of the US OPEN and Zacara could hold 2 Open titles in a calendar year with the British Open already in the trophy case. Both teams have hard trying and riding Patrons as Victor Vargas maybe a little more experienced but not anymore determined [...]

Lechuza Caracas and Zacara to face-off in US Open final

 By Alex Webbe The finals are finally set for the 2012 Nespresso US Open Championships at the International Polo Club in Wellington with Lechuza Caracas defeating Valiente I in overtime by the score of 9-8 while Zacara managed to outlast ERG in a 14-13 shootout.  Lechuza will be defending their 2011 title against a talent-laden [...]

Lazy P ekes out win in IPC President’s Cup qualifier

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By Alex Webbe Lazy P snuck past Goose Creek by the narrow margin of 8-7½ to capture the 2012 International Polo Club qualifier for the USPA 8-goal President’s Cup. A realigned Goose Creek team received one half goal by handicap and quickly ran off with a 2½ -1 lead.  Wesley Finlayson scored the sole Lazy [...]

Piaget takes Hall of Fame Cup in 14-12 win

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By Alex Webbe Piaget took advantage of three goals by handicap from the 25-goal La Ensenada team as it ran up an early 5-2 lead after the first chukker of play.  A pair of goals from the field from Juan Agustin Garcia Grossi was answered with two penalty goals from Piaget’s Nic Roldan for the [...]

Nespresso US Open semifinals set

By Alex Webbe A full day of polo at the International Polo Club in Wellington featured the quarterfinals of the 2012 Nespresso US Open championship with four teams emerging as the winners who will play in Wednesday’s semifinals. In the day’s finale, Facundo Pieres scored ten goals in leading Zacara to a 13-7 romp over [...]

Nine goals from Brandon Phillips rally Goose Creek to a 13-9 win

By Alex Webbe Goose Creek scored an unlikely come-from –behind win over Tonchala/ART Friday afternoon in the International Polo Club USPA 8-goal President’s Cup Qualifier.  The victory will place Goose Creek in Sunday’s 10 am finals against Lazy P (a 17-5 winner over Duck Hill). Tonchala/ART took an early 2-0 lead with Sergio Silvestre converting [...]