The international Polo Club To Hold Memorial Service For the horses who perished today.
Following the 5 PM match at the International Polo Club Palm Beach this afternoon will be a brief memorial to honor the 21 horses that perished last Sunday. During the memorial a local pastor will say a few words, the names of the horses will be read and individuals will be asked to make a silent gesture by placing flowers in a lake near the area horses are readied for the game.
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About International Polo Club Palm Beach
International Polo Club Palm Beach is located in Wellington, Florida and is host to the US Open Championships which conclude this Sunday. Tickets and information can be obtained at 561-204-5687 or www.internationalpoloclub.com. Polo game hotline is 561-282-5290.
About the US Open Polo Championships
First played in 1904 at Van Courtland Park, the U.S. Open Championship celebrated its centennial in 2004.
One of the three great polo tournaments, along with the British and Argentine fixtures, the US Open Polo Championship tournament attracts the finest players in the world for a month long competition. During the first half of the 20th century it was hosted in the Northeast, principally at Meadowbrook, moving in 1954 to Oakbrook, outside Chicago, where it stayed until 1978.
The next eight tournaments were hosted by Retama, in San Antonio, where Memo Gracida recorded his first of a record 16 wins. Not the first in his family to do so, his father and three other Gracida’s won the event for Mexico in 1946 at Meadowbrook.
Set for 1987 at El Dorado in Palm Springs, the next four Opens were played at the Horsepark, home to the USPA in Lexington.
Since 1996, The U.S. Open Championship has called South Florida its home and in 2004, the newly erected International Polo Club Palm first hosted the US Open Polo Championships where it has remained to date.
There will be two matches scheduled for tomorrow. At 1:00 PM, US Open Semifinal Las Monjitas vs. Orchard Hill Field TBA and 5:00 PM, US Open Semifinal Audi vs. White Birch Field on field #1.
TAGS: 21 Dead Horses, Palm Beach Polo, Polo, Polo Horses that Died, South Florida, Sunday Polo, US Open Championship, Wellington 
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