Page 7 The Morning Line Tuesday, September 23, 2014 POLO 2014 Polo Season THEMORNINGLINE Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014 www.themorningline.com Where s Polo Today? Editor & Publisher: Frederic Roy phone: 561 315 3111 polo@themorningline.com 2014 Trophy Inc. all rights reserved Hawk Hill Wins Interclub 12 Goal at Mashomack Page 5 Hawk Hill defeated Smithfield 12-9 on Sunday to win the Interclub 12 goal at Mashomack. From left, Mariano Gracida, Gringo Colombres, Sterling Giannico and Philip Mactaggart. MVP Sterling Giannico. Best Playing Pony was Carla owned and played by Julio Ezcurra. Polo Makes a Grand Entrance in Central Park Sunday Kris Kampsen, Wes Finlayson and Marc Ganzi won the U.S. Polo Assn. Central Park Polo Challenge for U.S. Trust defeating the Polo Assoc. team and Flexjet on Sunday in Central Park. The trophy was presented by Steven Nakash, owner of Jordache Jeans/licensee of U.S. Polo Assn. By all participants and observers accounts, the day was a real success putting a fine touch to a great equestrian weekend in New York City. Page 8
ML Polo Update - Tuesday, September 23, 2014 - AM Polo at Glance Aiken Polo Club - Today, game in the USPA Governorʼs Cup 6 Goal. The 8 goal Officer s Cup started on Sunday for a final on October 19, six teams entered playing cross-bracket. Houston Polo Club - The sun has returned with games in the 8 goal and the 12 goal today and tomorrow respectively. Today in the 8 goal, Carlucho Arellano will play for Sipsmith, as Jared Sheldon is only arriving in Houston on Wednesday. Argentina - Tortugas Open kick-off today at Tortugas with the game La Aguada ICBC vs. Magual. Tomorrow Wednesday it will be Alegria vs. La Aguada Las Monjitas. Saturday, La Dolfina will play the loser of today s game, then Sunday Ellerstina will play the loser of tomorrow s game. Correction: [from Sunday s edition] Adolfo Cambiaso s winning streak is 6 for 6 since winning the Gold Cup at Cowdray with Dubai, followed by the Coronation Cup for Argentina, then the Bronze, Silver and Gold Cups in Sotogrande for Valiente, and on Saturday, the Jockey Club Open with La Dolfina. Since February Adolfo is 8 for 10, winning the CV Whitney and the USPA Gold Cup at IPC with Valiente, but then failed to win the US Open (winner Alegria) and the Queen s Cup (winner Zacara). For the year (12 Months since September 2013), Adolfo Cambiaso is 11 for 13, having won the Triple Crown: Tortugas Open, Hurlingham Open and Argentine Open (Sept-Dec. 2013). The next big winner of the last two years is of course Facundo Pieres, who for the last 12 months also played 13 tournaments but won only 2: the Queen s Cup 2014 with Zacara and the Coronation Cup for Argentina with Adolfo. Facundo s big streak was the 12 months prior, from September 2012 to August 2013. In October 2012, Facundo won the Tortugas Open, then the Argentine Open (The Hurlingham went to La Dolfina). At IPC in 2013, Facundo won the US Open with Zacara (for the 2nd consecutive time), followed by the Queen s Cup and the Gold Cup in England, then won Silver Cup and the Gold Cup in Sotogrande all with Zacara (Adolfo won the Bronze Cup). But the big achievement for Facundo Pieres for that 12-month period of Sept. 1012 to August 2013 was winning the Tiger Grand Slam for Polo: Argentine Open (2012), US Open (2013), Gold Cup for the British Open (2013) and Sotogrande Gold Cup (2013). --------------------- --------------------- Clubs - Schedule and Results Aiken Polo Club - 2014 USPA Governorʼs Cup 6 Goal Thurs 18 Airy Hall def. Las Vinas/ Whiskey Victor 9-4.5 Fri 19 POST. Casa Azul vs Karna/ Palmetto Parking Sat 20 Karna/Palmetto Parking def. Las Vinas/Whiskey Victor 9-7.5 Tues 23 11am Casa Azul vs Las Vinas/ Whiskey Victor Wed 24 4:30 Airy Hall/ Blessing Plantation vs Karna/Palmetto Parking Fri 26 11am Airy Hall/ Blessing Plantation vs Casa Azul Sun 28 3pm Final at Whitney Field Single Bracket (4 teams) Airy Hall/ Blessing Plantation 6 // 1-0 Barry Limehouse A Omar Cepeda 3 Edouard Des Francs A Del Walton 3 Casa Azul 6 Grayson Brown B Geoff Cameron 3 Brien Limehouse 1 Matt Sekera 3 Karna/ Palmetto Parking 6 // 1-0 Chip Limehouse A Stan Sandefur A Brad Limehouse 3 Luis Galvan 3 Page 2 The Morning Line Tuesday, September 23, 2014 Schedule & Results Las Vinas/ Whiskey Victor 5 // 0-2 Stacie Rodriguez B Cesar Rangel 1.5 Whitney Vogt A.5 Willie Hartnett 4 ------ Aiken Polo Club - 2014 USPA Copper Cup 12 Goal Thurs 18 Indigo Inn def. Kenny Ray Personal Fitness 16-12 Fri 19 Duck Hill def. Skaneateles 13-12 OT Wed 24 2pm Clearwater vs Kenny Ray Personal Fitness Thurs 25 11am Indigo Inn vs High Ground/ SD Fri 26 2pm Crestview/Karna vs Skaneateles 5pm Duck Hill vs Heritage Farm Sat 27 11am Clearwater vs Indigo Inn 2pm High Ground/SD vs Kenny Ray Personal Fitness Sun 28 10am Crestview/Karna vs Duck Hill noon Skaneateles vs Heritage Farm Wed 1 11am Clearwater vs High Ground/ SD Fri 3 2pm Crestview/ Karna vs Heritage Farm Sun 5 3pm Final at Whitney field Bracket A (4 teams) Clearwater 12 Chip Campbell 1 Stuart Campbell 4 Gonzalo Teves 4 Del Walton 3 Indigo Inn 12 // 1-0 Brien Limehouse 1 Pelon Escapite 6 Kegan Walsh 2 Brad Limehouse 3 High Ground/ SD 12 Joe Meyer 1 Sayyu Dantata 3 Alan Martinez 5 Will Tankard 3 Kenny Ray Personal Fitness 12 // 0-1 Barb Uskup A Gabriel Crespo 3 Owen Rinehart 5 Antonio Galvan 4 Bracket B (4 Teams) Crestview/ Karna 12 Alan Meeker A Stan Sandefur A Matias Magrini 8 Marcos Garcia Del Rio 4 Duck Hill 12 // 1-0 Bob Stanton A John Gobin 4 Tommy Biddle 6 Weston Gracida 2 Heritage Farm/ Kings Row Coffee 12 Charlie Hutchinson 1 Luis Galvan 3 Marcos Onetto 4 Horacio Onetto 4 Skaneateles 11 // 0-1 Marty Cregg A Cesar Jimenez 1 Tomas Obregon 4 Julian Daniels 6 ----------------
Page 3 The Morning Line Tuesday, September 23, 2014 Aiken Polo Club - 2014 USPA Officerʼs Cup 8 Goal Sun 21 Duck Hill def. Skaneateles 12-8 Sat 27 4:30 Foxdale Equine vs Mill-House Tues 30 11am Bottega vs SD Farm Fri 3 5pm Skaneateles vs Foxdale Equine Sat 4 11am Duck Hill vs Mill-House Sun 5 11am Skaneateles vs Bottega Tues 7 11am Bottega vs Mill- House Sun 12 3pm Foxdale Equine vs SD Farm Fri 17 2pm Duck Hill vs SD Farm Sun 19 3pm Final at Whitney field Bracket A (3 teams) Bottega 8 Frank Stitt A Tomas Obregon 4 Felipe Viana 4 Lauren Biddle A Duck Hill 8 Bob Stanton A Brien Limehouse 1 John Gobin 4 Luis Galvan 3 Foxdale Equine 8 Paul Shealy B Hugh Worsham 1 Tom Uskup 2 Julian Daniels 6 Bracket B (3 teams) Mill- House 8 Glenn Miller A Barry Limehouse A Pelone Escapite 6 Kegan Walsh 2 SD Farm 8 Sayyu Dantata 3 Jason Wates 3 Will Tankard 3 TBA -1 Skaneateles 8 Marty Cregg A Cesar Jiminez 1 Denys Santana 3 Martin Estrada 4 ------------------ Houston Polo Club - 12 Goal - USPA Keleen & Carlton Beal Cup Wed 17 Whitehall Ranch def. Fairplay 13-9 Wed 24 Tonkawa vs BTA Whitehall Ranch vs Eureka Fri 26 Fairplay vs BTA Eureka vs Tonkawa Sun 28 Semifinals Record 1 vs Record 4 Record 2 vs Record 3 Wed 1st Consolation & Final Single Bracket (5 teams) BTA 12 Kelly Beal 1 Steve Krueger 3 Ulysses Escapite 4 Joe Wayne Barry 4 www.tackeria.com 1-800-882-POLO Eureka 12 Rene Campos 0 Agustin Arellano 1 Jorge Cernadas 4 Jeff Hall 7 Fairplay 12 // 0-1 Esther Kane -1 Remy Muller 2 Tano Vial 6 Carlucho Arellano 5 Tonkawa 12 Jeff Hildebrand 0 Geronimo Obregon 3 Jimmy Seward 3 Jeff Blake 6 Whitehall Ranch 12 // 1-0 Bill Lane 0 Marquitos Alberdi 2 Miguel Torres 4 Luis Escobar 6 ------ Houston Polo Club - USPA Regional President s Cup 8 goal Bracket 1 (5 teams) 7 Bar W/Pegasus Cinco Canyon Team Tejas Listo Polo Ghurka Bracket 2 (5 teams) BTA Sipsmith Propaganda Lockton/Chandler Ranch Rocking P Thurs 18 POST. 7 Bar W/Pegasus vs Cinco Canyon POST. Listo Polo vs Ghurka Sat 20 Ghurka vs Cinco Canyon Team Tejas vs Listo Polo BTA vs Propaganda Rocking P vs Sipsmith Tues 23 BTA vs Sipsmith Thurs 25 Listo Polo vs Cinco Canyon 7 Bar W/Pegasus vs Ghurka Propaganda vs Lockton/Chandler Ranch Sat 27 BTA vs Rocking P Team Tejas vs Cinco Canyon 7 Bar W/Pegasus vs Listo Polo Lockton/Chandler Ranch vs Sipsmith Tues 30 Ghurka vs Team Tejas Rocking P vs Propaganda Thurs 2 7 Bar W/Pegasus vs Team Tejas BTA vs Lockton/Chandler Ranch Propaganda vs Sipsmith Sat 4 Semifinals Tues 7 Final Bracket 1 (5 teams play within the bracket)) 7 Bar W / Pegasus 8 Jeff Wood 0 David Andras 1 Robert Orthwein 3 Mason Wroe 4 Cinco Canyon 8 David Marks 0 / Brooks Diesel 0 Agustin Arellano 1 Bryan Middleton 3 Nicolai Galindo 4
Page 4 The Morning Line Tuesday, September 23, 2014 Team Tejas 8 Charles Fridge 0 Chad Bowman 1 Billy Mudra 3 Joe Wayne Barry 4 Listo Polo 8 Kelly Plato 0 George Krabbe 1 Ignacio Saenz 3 Francisco Rodriguez Mera 4T Ghurka 8 Fox Benton 0 Drew Luplow 1 Stewart Armstrong 3 Chris Nevins 4 Bracket 2 (5 teams play within the bracket) BTA 8 Chrys Beal 0 KC Krueger 1 Steve Krueger 3 Shane Rice 4 Sipsmith 6 (*8) Tom Earl -1 Remy Muller 2 Peter Blake 2 Jared Sheldon 3* *Carlucho Arellano 5 Propaganda 8 Jenny Vargas 0 Paul Hobby 1 Nick Cifuni 3 Charly Quincoces 4 Lockton / Chandler Ranch 8/7 Tim Kelly 0 / Joe Chandler -1 Peter Von Gontard 2 Hernan Tejera 3 Hamish Bray 3 Rocking P 8 Grayson Price -1 Carl Price 0 Marcos Villanueva 4 Juan Martin Obregon 5 ------------------ Argentina - Tortugas Open September 23 - October 11, 2014 Hurlingham Open October 14 - November 2, 2014 Argentine Open November 16 - December 6, 2014 Tues 23 4pm La Aguada ICBC vs. Magual Wed 24 4pm Alegria vs. La Aguada Las Monjitas Sat 27 4pm La Dolfina vs. loser Tuesday game Sun 28 4pm Ellerstina vs. loser Wednesday game Sat 4 4pm La Dolfina vs. Winner Tuesday Sun 5 4pm Ellerstina vs. Winner Wednesday Sat 11 4pm Final Bracket A (3 teams) La Dolfina 40 (defending Champion) Adolfo Cambiaso 10 Pelon Stirling 10 Pablo Mac Donough 10 Juan Martin Nero 10 La Aguada ICBC 36 Facundo Sola 8 Sapo Caset 9 Miguel Astrada 10 Nacho Astrada 9 Magual 33 Alejandro Muzzio 8 Ignacio Toccalino 9 Marcos Di Paola 8 Jaime García Huidobro 8 Bracket B (3 teams) Ellerstina 38 Facundo Pieres 10 Gonzalito Pieres 10 Mariano Aguerre 9 Nicolas Pieres 9 Alegria 36 Polito Pieres 9 Hilario Ulloa 9 Lucas Monteverde 9 Frederick Mannix 9 La Aguada Las Monjitas 33 Lucas James 8 Magoo Laprida 8 Eduardo Astrada 9 Alejandro Astrada 8 ------------------- Santa Barbara - Wickenden Cup 8 Goal- September 10-21, 2014 http://www.poloscoreboard.com/ ----------------
Page 5 The Morning Line Tuesday, September 23, 2014 Mashomack Polo Club Interclub 12 goal - Final Sunday, September 21st Runner up Smithfield, from left, Karen and John Klopp, Tommy Biddle, Julio Ezcurra and Craig Callen. Below left, MVP Sterling Giannico. Right, Most Improved Player of the Season Davis Colley, with Dad Bruce.
Page 6 The Morning Line Tuesday, September 23, 2014 Mashomack Polo Club Interclub 12 goal - Final Sunday, September 21st Tournament winner Hawk Hill. From left, Mariano Gracida, Gringo Colombres, Sterling Giannico and Philip Mactaggart. Hawk Hill defeated Smithfield 12-9. MVP Sterling Giannico. Best Playing Pony Carla owned and played by Julio Ezcurra.
Page 7 The Morning Line Tuesday, September 23, 2014 Mashomack Polo Club Interclub 12 goal - Final Sunday, September 21st Heathcote defeated Gardenvale 9-6 to take third place in the tournament. MVP was Shane finemore and Best Playing Pony was Maria owned by Oak Thorne.
Page 8 The Morning Line Tuesday, September 23, 2014 Central Park Horseshow Thursday September 18 through Sunday 21st. The Central Park Horse Show (CPHS), presented by Rolex and produced by The Chronicle of the Horse, concluded a fantastic inaugural event on Sunday with matinee performances and an afternoon of polo in Central Park s Trump Rink in New York City. The U.S. Polo Assn. Central Park Polo Challenge served as the weekend s finale competition with a win for the U.S. Trust Team made up of players Kris Kampsen, Marc Ganzi and Wesley Finlayson. Capping off four days of world-class equestrian competition, the U.S. Polo Assn. Central Park Polo Challenge featured match-ups of three teams each made up of three highly talented American polo players. The winning team for U.S. Trust celebrated victory with Kampsen, Ganzi, and Finlayson. The FlexJet team of Melissa Ganzi, Charlie Muldoon, and Juan Bollini finished second, and the U.S. Polo Assn. s team of Nic Roldan, Juancito Bollini, and Grant Ganzi earned a third place finish. All of the players rode horses provided by the Ganzi Family and Grand Champions Polo Club. Kampsen was named MVP, and Open Corchos was Best Playing Pony. This has been an extremely exciting event for us to have polo here in Central Park, stated Jackie Harrigan, Vice President of Marketing for the U.S. Polo Assn. All of our money goes back to funding the sport of polo, to growing it, and developing intercollegiate and interscholastic programs. This is a really special event for us, and we hope to be a part of it next year. Leading his U.S. Trust team to victory, top player Kris Kampsen had fun competing in the wonderful location with close friends. It was incredible. It was a great experience to be in New York playing polo, and playing with your friends was unbelievable. The event, the venue, the U.S. Trust 12 Marc Ganzi 2 Wes Finlayson 3 Kris Kampsen 7 / FlexJet 12 Melissa Ganzi 0 Juan Bollini 7 Charlie Muldoon 5 / U.S. Polo Assn. 12 Grant Ganzi 1 Juancito Bollini 2 Nic Roldan 9 Kris Kampsen, Steven Nakash, Owner, Jordache Jeans/licensee of U.S. Polo Assn., Wesley Finlayson, Marc Ganzi. (ph Kit Houghton/Rolex and David Handschuh) Wesley Finlayson and Melissa Ganzi. (ph Kit Houghton/Rolex and David Handschuh) organization that it took to get this done was bar none. It was phenomenal, Kampsen stated. When you are out there playing you zone everything out and then all of a sudden there is a stoppage of play and you look up and you are like, Wow, look at the venue that we are in! It is unbelievable. This is a one-of-a-kind experience to be in the center of Manhattan doing this, Kampsen added. I could not have asked for a better outcome and better friends and teammates to play with and against. It was great. Melissa Ganzi enjoyed her experience playing in the momentous game and thanked the organizers for their vision in making everything happen. I want to thank Mark and Katherine Bellissimo for having the dream and making all of this possible and setting up this amazing venue, Ganzi acknowledged. It was quite complicated, the logistics of getting horses into Central Park, but with Michael Stone and Bobby Murphy, we were able to get all of that accomplished. I look forward to next year, and I am really honored and privileged to have been a part of it. The atmosphere was energizing, Ganzi noted. I think the crowd really enjoyed the game. The spectator s level of interest and attention was pretty exceptional for a lot of people that possibly have never seen polo before. I was impressed, and I could feel their energy while we were playing. Nic Roldan saw his help and support of the event pay off with the great success of Sunday s competition. There was a lot of work that went into making this all happen. Obviously Marc and Melissa Ganzi had a very big part, and if it weren t for Mark Bellissimo, we would not be here, Roldan stated. We looked at the setting and just couldn t imagine a better place to play polo. Our first experience here was better than any experience that I have had. The ring was amazing, the setting and the weather were great, and the fans were great. I think we had a great turnout. I think all in all the event was a huge success, and we look forward to coming back next year. CEO of the U.S. Polo Assn., Peter Rizzo, attended all of the weekend s fun exhibitions and great competition and was thrilled to expose the sport of polo Please turn to page 9
Page 9 The Morning Line Tuesday, September 23, 2014 Central Park Horseshow Thursday September 18 through Sunday 21st. to a broad range of spectators in this historic event. The last time polo like this was played in New York was in 1876, so bringing it back to Manhattan and bringing it back to this kind of audience is remarkable, Rizzo stated. It was a pleasure being here with other horses and all of the other disciplines to be able to show our game to a wider audience, so we are very happy. As part of the United States Polo Association s ongoing program to expose sports fans nationwide to the sport of polo, the match will be telecast on the NBC Sports Network (NBC SN) on October 4 at 3:30 p.m. EST. It will be the first ever nationwide telecast of an arena polo match. U.S. Polo Assocation President Joe Meyer looks forward to seeing the Central Park Polo Challenge broadcast to help promote the sport across the country. We have 250 polo clubs in the United States, and I think that what happened here is probably the most historic event in a long time, Meyer said. The Bellissimos did a spectacular job of organizing this and figuring out how to pull it together, and the U.S. Polo Association is excited about working with them to continue to share the sport with the rest of the world through New York City. One of the things that we are trying to do is to get polo to become well known throughout the United States, and doing that through TV has helped us significantly, Meyer stated. For the last couple of years we have been working with NBC Sports and showing some of our best and what I would call highest grade of polo in the United States. We are all players, we love the game, we love the horses, and the chance that people get to see this happen at this historic event here in Central Park in the middle of New York City has been fantastic. Sunday also featured two matinee performances with various exhibitions representing different disciplines of equestrian sport, including 4 exhibition chukkers by young polo players, two on Saturday morning at 9 and 12, two other on Sunday morning at 9 and 12. The United States Pony Club Games highlighted New York s top young Pony Club riders in a series of entertaining and competitive games. The inaugural Central Park Grand National Shetland Pony Steeplechase races, part of the WIHS Shetland Pony Steeplechase Series presented by Charles Owen, saw jockeys age seven to 16 riding atop one of the world s most adorable pony breeds. Young dressage phenom Barbara Bebe Davis represented the next generation of dressage stars. Polo s rising stars took to the ring thanks to support from Wellington s Grand Champions Polo Club. One-of-a-kind inspirational equestrian entertainment concluded the matinees as Australian Horseman Guy McLean and his equine partners demonstrated the strong bond between horses and humans. McLean then returned for an encore performance following the polo match as fans could not get enough of his incredible horses. Sunday s competition concluded the Central Park Horse Show s momentous first event. For more information, please visitwww.centralparkhorseshow.com.