Page 7 The Morning Line Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012 POLO 2012 Polo Season THEMORNINGLINE Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012 www.themorningline.com Where s Polo Today? Editor & Publisher: Frederic Roy phone: 561 315 3111 polo@themorningline.com 2012 Trophy Inc. all rights reserved Career Hat-Trick for Lucchese in Bombardier Pacific Coast Open Career hat-trick for Lucchese and its owner John Muse at Santa Barbara winning the Bombardier PCO for the third consecutive time, Sunday with teammates, from left, Adolfo Cambiaso with daughter Mia and young Adolfo, Andres Weisz and Santi Torres. Lucchese had a season hat-trick in 2010, then just the PCO in 2011 and this year won the USPA Piaget Silver Cup mid August. Both tournaments were won with a late charge by Lucchese. In the Piaget Silver Cup, Lucchese had a 4-goal blitz with 4 minutes to go in the sixth chukker to erase a 3-goal deficit and defeat Mansour 11-10 in regulation, goal by Adolfo Cambiaso. Sunday, Lucchese erased a 6 goal deficit early fifth on Grant s Farm, once again Adolfo Cambiaso scoring the winning goal, this time in overtime. In both game-ending rushes, Lucchese eerily came together at the right time with the right ingredients from everyone on board to close the deal. (ph David Lominska, Polographics.com) Photos Page 6
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Page 3 The Morning Line Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012 Schedule & Results ML Polo Update - Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012 - AM Polo at a Glance Greenwich. First game of the Fall Cup Sunday, Harry Winston defeated Heathcote Polo 11-10 to win the Royal Salute Jubilee Cup. MVP was Steve Lefkowitz and Best Playing Pony EL Marquez for Matias Magrini. It was played as the first game of the Fall Cup. Tomorrow Thursday, Harry Winston plays White Birch, and next Sunday 9th, Heathcote Polo plays White Birch. Santa Barbara. Photos from Bombardier PCO, page 6. Schedule and Results continued on page 4 Argentina Fall 2012 and IPC 2013 Winter Schedule Argentina Sept 9-23 Jockey Club Open Starting Sept 25 Hurlingham and Argentine Open Qualifier Sept 25 - Oct 14 Tortugas Open Oct 16 - Nov 4 Hurlingham Open Nov 17 - Dec 8 Argentine Open International Polo Club Palm Beach Jan 6 Herbie Pennell 20 Jan 8-27 Joe Barry 20 Jan 29 - Feb 24 Ylvisaker Cup 20 Feb 20 - March 3 Iglehart Cup 20 Feb 20 - March 3 CV Whitney 26 March 5-24 USPA Piaget Gold Cup 26 March 26 - April 21 Nespresso U.S. Open Polo Championship 26 GRAND CHAMPIONS POLO CLUB announces its 2012 Fall Season! We invite you to join us for the best fall medium and high goal polo at our turn-key facility. Tournaments begin in September and continue into November with the final of the 2012 USPA National Twenty Goal. CONTACT THE CLUB AT (561) 644-5050 TO REGISTER YOUR TEAM! Tournament Medium Goal (12-14 goal) Tackeria Invitational USPA Fall Classic USPA Kay Colee Memorial Pedro Morrison Memorial USPA Fall Plates US Trust Cup Palm Restaurant Invitational Event Dates September 28th - 30th October 5th - 7th October 12th - 14th October 17th - 21st October 26th - 28th November 2nd - 4th November 4th - 6th High Goal (16-20 goal) USPA North America Cup The National Twenty Goal Championship October 25th - Nov. 3rd November 6th - 18th 13444 Southfields Road Wellington, FL 33414 561-644-5050 gcpoloclub.com Where great polo is always in season
Page 4 The Morning Line Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012 Continued from page 3, Schedule and Results Royal Salute Jubilee Cup / Sunday Sept. 2, 2012 Fall Cup // Greenwich Polo Club / 3pm Harry Winston 20 Bash Kazi A Nacho Figueras 6 Matias Magrini 8 Kris Kampsen 6 def. 11-10 Heathcote 17 Steve Lefkowitz A Naco Taverna 6 Tommy Biddle 6 Nick Manifold 5 Fall Cup / Thurs Sept. 6, 2012 Greenwich Polo Club / 5pm Harry Winston 20 // 1-0 Bash Kazi A Nacho Figueras 6 Matias Magrini 8 Kris Kampsen 6 vs. White Birch 20 Felipe Viana 3 Fred Mannix 6 Mariano Aguerre 9 Geronimo Obregon 2 Bombardier Pacific Coast Open Final Sunday Sept 2, 2012 Lucchese 20 // 3-0 John Muse A Santiago Torres 5 Andres Weisz 5 Adolfo Cambiaso 10 def. 16-15 OT Grants Farm 20 // 2-1 Jared Sheldon 2 Polito Pieres 8 Jeff Hall 7 Andy Busch 3 Mashomak Polo Club. 7th Annual Menage à Trois Smithfield Open, Hosted by the Callens & the Klopps this weekend. Sun 22 Smithfield Open Final HeathBurger def Smithfield Green 6-4 Dixi von Maltzahn was named MVP of the tournament. Bruce Colley from SuperFine won the Golazo Award (best goal). In the consolation SuperFine tied with Smithfield White 6-6 HeathBurger def. 6-4 Oakleigh Thorne Bryan Colley Tatin Zubiaurre Smithfield Green Dixi von Maltzahn Adam Klopp Julio Ezcurra Schedule and Results continued on page 5 www.tackeria.com 1-800-882-POLO
Page 5 The Morning Line Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012 Continued from page 4, Schedule and Results ----------------------- Southampton Polo Club / http://www.southamptonpolo.com/ Southampton Cup, 8 Goal / 3 Brackets / 7 teams Bracket A & B play across, C within, 4 best teams go to semifinals Fri 17 La Magnolia def. IHOP/Royal Riviera 10-9 Fri 24 Circa def. VanLith 11-8 Sun 26 Aliano def. Black Knights 13-11 TBA Circa vs Aliano Realty Fri 31 Equuleus vs. La Magnolia 8-7 Sat 1 VanLith Ranch def. Black Knights Mon 3 1pm Equuleus vs IHOP/Royal Riviera Fri 7. 5pm Semifinals, 4 best records Sun 16 3pm Final Bracket A Black Knights 7 / 0-2 Tomas Alberdi 1 Omer Karabey* 0 Naco Taverna 6 Michael Carrazza 0 Circa 8 / 1-0 Chris DelGatto 0 Ignacio Lopez Gaffney 0 Martin Pepa 5 Hugo Lloret 3 Bracket C IHOP/Royal Riviera / 0-1 Mike Ashkenazy 0 Omar Manjalgi 0 Tomas Franco 5 Mikey Matz 3 Bracket B Aliano Realty 8 / 1-0 Nick Aliano 0 Marcos Alberdi 1 Marcos DelRio 4 Tommy Collingwood 3 VanLith Ranch 8 / 1-1 Mark VanLith 1 Chris Briere* 1 Gringo Colombres 6 Carlos Rohm 0 La Magnolia 8 / 1-1 Ali Bailey 0 Wes Finlayson 2 Geronimo Obregon 2 Francisco Ayela 4 Equuleus 8 // 1-0 Joe DiMenna 0 Hugo Tagliaferro* 2 JM Obregon 5 Danny Tagliaferro 1 F a M i LY, implant & cosm e T ic dent ist r Y Designing Healthy & Beautiful Smiles For You! sergio rauchwerger dmd, MMsc 561-798-7807 3975 Isles View Dr., Suite 202 Wellington, FL 33414 www.smiledesignsllc.com Se habla Español! Harvard Trained ProsTHodonT ist Practice in Wellington, Fl Hamptons League, 6 Goal / Single-Elimination / July 14 - Sept 2, 2012 Sat 14 Black Knights def. Willowcreek 6-4 Sat 28 Equuleus def. VanLith Ranch 10-9 Value Holdings def. Solaia 6-5 Fri 3 Black Knights def. Catalina 6-5 Sat 25 Value Holdings def. Equuleus 6-4 Sun 2 Final Value Holdings def. Black Knights 6-4 6 goal Hamptons League Southampton Polo Club Top Draw Geronimo Obregon 2 Danny Tagliaferro 1 Hugo Tagliaferro 2 Joe DiMenna 0 5 Ali Bailey 0 Mark VanLith 1 Nicholas Mallon 4 Chris Briere 1 6 Laura Newcomb 0 Rob Neis 1 Hugo Lloret 3 Marcos Alberdi 1.5 5.5 John Bianco 1 M. Carrazza 0 Horton Schwartz 3 Ezra Stevenson 2 6 7 teams - 6 goal - Single-Elimination - July 14 - Sept. 2, 2012 Equuleus VanLith Value Holding Solaia Equuleus Sat July 28 Def. VanLith 10-9 Value Holding Bye Value Holding Sat Aug 25 Def. Equuleus 6-4 Bottom Draw Hakan Karabey 0 Omer Karabey 0 Martin Pepa 5 Tomas Alberdi 1 6 Misty Allen* -1 Hugh Dollard 1 Brian Fairclough 2 Wes Findlinson 2 4 Al Lieberman -1 Omar Mangalji 0 Mikey Matz 3 Marcos DelRio 4 6 Black Knights Willowcreek Catalina Black Knights Saturday July 14 Def, Willowcreek 6-4 Catalina Bye Black Knights Semifinal Friday Aug 3 Def. Catalina 6-5 Value Holding Final Sun 2 def. Black Knights 7-5 Fall League, 4 Goal / Aug 18 - Sept 8, 2012 Sat 25 Catalina def. The Eagles 7-5 Sun 26 Equuleus/VanLith def. La Magnolia & The Eagles in a round robin. Sat 1 Value Holdings def. The Eagles 6-5 Equuleus vs Catalina 4-2 La Magnolia def. Value Holdings
Page 6 The Morning Line Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012 Final of the Bombardier Pacific Coat Open. Above, Jared Sheldon and Andres Weisz. Below, Santi Torres. (ph David Lominska, Polographics.com)
Page 7 The Morning Line Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012 Above, Andy Busch chased by Adolfo Cambiaso. Below, Adolfo Cambiaso. (ph David Lominska, Polographics.com)
Page 8 The Morning Line Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012 Above, Polito Pieres. Below, John Muse and Jeff Hall. (ph David Lominska, Polographics.com)
Page 9 The Morning Line Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012 Above left, Adolfo Cambiaso. Above right, Andy Busch and Adolfo Cambiaso. Below left, Jared Sheldon, author of two very good goals Sunday. Below right, Adolfo Cambiaso and Jeff Hall. (ph David Lominska, Polographics.com)
Page 10 The Morning Line Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012 Above, Best Playing Pony Noruega, played by Santi Torres, owned by Adolfo Cambiaso. Hot-rider Duillio Diaz is standing next to Adolfo and Colo is holding Noruega. Right, Afolfo Cambiaso was MVP of the final, with Adolfo Jr. and Daughter Mia, receiving his award from Brant Dahlfors, President of U.S. Sales for Bombardier and Brent Monroe, Bombardier Sales Director. (ph David Lominska, Polographics.com)
Page 11 The Morning Line Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012 Above, the 2012 Robert Skene Season MVP Award went to Santi Torres, standing with USPA President Pat Nesbitt, Elizabeth Skene, Amb Glen Holden. Right, Santi Torres in 2002, 10 years ago, Santi was 8 years-old. (ph David Lominska, Polographics.com) Santi Torres, Season MVP Santi Torres was 8 years old when David Lominska took this picture of him in Santa Barbara, and he was the youngest player ever at 11 years old to play in a 26-goal tournament when he replaced injured Russ McCall in a Gold Cup match at New Bridge. About the photo, says his mother Kelita: Santi was about 8 years old, he used to have 8 great little horses to learn on and he has been going Mach speed ever since. I believe this mare was named Shorty, they both made a great team. With the win of the Pacific Coast Open Sunday with Lucchese, Santi and Miguelito will have their name on the trophy with their late dad. Says Kelita Torres: The boys father, Miguel Torres Sr., won the PCO in 1996 with Tom Barrack s team Piocho Ranch, Miguelito won it in 2004 with Geoff Palmer s team Antelope and now Santi with Lucchese. So now the 3 Torres men all have their names on the same trophy. Santi was born in Santa Barbara, both boys were raised there and in Santa Ynez. Kelita Torres wanted to acknowledge Bill Meeker, whom Miguel Sr. used to work for, so did Kelita, adding that living on Bill s ranch, a couple miles north of the club gave the kids a chance to develop into the players they are today. Frederic Roy
Page 12 The Morning Line Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012 Story by Melanja Jones // Reprinted from ML Polo Update of Sunday, Sept 2, 2012 PM Lightning never strikes twice, but sometimes it strikes three times. John Muse s Lucchese polo team scored three goals in the first three minutes of the 6th chukker of the PCO final to cap an amazing comeback and win their 3rd consecutive Bombardier Pacific Coast Open, in the most spectacular game of the season. The first half of the PCO final, played before a capacity crowd on a flawless summer day, was a battle between calm and collected Grants Farm player Jeff Hall, who scored seven penalty goals, and the fiery play of young Santiago Torres, who kept his team in the game with some dazzling goals from the field, especially in the second chukker when he was on a blaze faced chestnut named Noruega that was loaned to him by his teammate Adolfo Cambiaso. The two teams were neck and neck throughout the first half, and a field goal by Grants Farms Jared Sheldon gave the team in green a slim, one goal lead going into half time, 8-7. Grants Farm came out in the 4th chukker on fire, winning the throw-ins and maintaining control of the ball and seeming to score at will. Hall, Pieres and Sheldon all notched up field goals, with team captain Andy Busch holding the line on defense with strong backshots. A very frustrated Lucchese team embroiled themselves in foul trouble and found themselves looking at a mountainous 6 goal deficit, 14-8, heading into the 5th chukker. Then, in the 5th chukker a few key things happened. Santiago Torres got back on Noruega for the first three minutes of the chukker. The Lucchese team won the throw-ins. And Adolfo Cambiaso put his Superman cape on and showed us what it means to be better than 10 goals. Torres got the comeback started with a great field goal, weaving through traffic and showing great ball control, and Adolfo kept control of the ball for most of the chukker, despite being hustled hard by Grants Farm, especially Polito Pieres who did a great job marking Adolfo all through the game and made several key saves. Lucchese team captain John Muse made some key blocks and Andres Weisz added a field goal, all of the sudden things were clicking for Lucchese. By the end of the 5th, Lucchese had clawed back within three goals, the score was 14-11, still in favor of Grants Farm but the momentum was swinging towards Lucchese. The start of the 6th chukker was amazing polo, all eight players going to the right place, making clever plays, but for everything that Grants Farm did the other team had just a little more. Torres asked Noruega for two more minutes and the gallant mare took him to goal to start the chukker right for Lucchese. Then Adolfo made the goal of the game on a perfect slapshot from about 60 yards out, while surrounded by three players in green. The margin was down to one goal, the crowd was going crazy, and a penalty goal by Lucchese tied it up at 14-all three minutes into the 6th chukker. Torres gave Lucchese the lead 15-14 on yet another field goal, but Grants Farm refused to quit, first Adolfo Cambiaso saving on goal a foot from the goal line from a shot by Polito Pieres, Pieres again with another great run down to the ocean side of the field this time for goal. Tied at 15-all, the clock ran out and the game headed to sudden death overtime. The crowd was on their feet for OT, everyone holding their breath and cheering for both teams. The first throw-in is always key and it looked like Grants Farm had possession, but on a broken play, that master of anticipation Adolfo Cambiaso jumped on the loose ball at midfield, and he was gone. Riding a lightning quick horse, chased by two Grants Farm players, the best player in the world carried the ball downfield to score the golden goal and win the Bombardier Pacific Coast Open with a final score of 16-15. MVP of the game was Adolfo Cambiaso. BPP was Noruega, played by Santi Torres and owned by Adolfo Cambiaso. The final award of the day was the Robert Skene Memorial Season MVP award. Elizabeth Skene presented this award to 18 year old Santiago Torres, who played fantastic all season and earned the respect of his fellow players and the umpires for his sportsmanship on the field. Torres grew up in Santa Barbara, his father Miguel Torres was a polo professional who passed away almost exactly five years ago from cancer. Brother Miguel Torres had earlier sent Santi a message about making their dad proud with his polo success, and somewhere up above Miguel Torres must be grinning ear to ear in pride of his son s great season and PCO championship.