Zacara rode onto the Piaget Field at the International Polo Club just a week after winning the 2010 Joe Barry memorial Cup with an exciting 13-1 win over the Hawks and couldn’t look much better. After scoring a 12-5 Ylvisaker Cup win over Bendabout just four days earlier, the English sponsored team scored a decisive [...]
By Alex Webbe
Daily News Polo Columnist
The Wanderers/Isla Carroll polo team drove off with a 3-0 lead after the first chukker of play and held on to secure an 9-5 win over Mount Brilliant in second round play of the 2010 Ylvisaker Cup at The International Polo Club in Wellington Wednesday afternoon. Earlier games saw Zacara [...]
By Alex Webbe
Daily News Polo Columnist
The first round of the Ylvisaker Cup saw three more games take place on Sunday with The Wanderers/Isla Carroll taking the early game from Patagones 11-7 followed by a one goal Lechuza win over Yellow Cab and a Lucchese victory at the expense of Faraway Polo.
In a 10 am game [...]
By Alex Webbe
Daily News Polo Columnist
Carlos Gracida converted a penalty shot with six seconds left in regulation play as he led Patagones (1-0) to a 10-9 victory over Bendabout (0-2) Thursday afternoon in the Joe Barry memorial Cup competition at the International Polo Club in Wellington.
Patagones took an early lead and held it throughout most [...]
By Alex Webbe
Daily News Polo Columnist
Nick Roldan scored four of Bendabout’s first five goals as they cruised to an early 5-1 lead, but Faraway Polo turned the tables on them in the second half on their way to an 18-14 win in the opening round of play in the 2010 Joe Barry Memorial Cup at [...]
By Alex Webbe
Daily News Polo columnist
The Hawks, the only team in 20-goal competition with a 10-goal player in its lineup, scored a decisive 15-8 win over Lechuza Caracas in the opening game of the 2010 Joe Barry Memorial Cup.
After trailing 2-1 after the first chukker of play, the Hawks relied on a realigned lineup and [...]
By Alex Webbe
Daily News Polo Columnist
EFG Bank rallied from a 7-6 halftime deficit to down the Hawks 14-12 in Wednesday’s 3 pm semifinals of the 2010 Iglehart Cup tournament at the International Polo Club in Wellington. Paced by nine goals from Pancho Bensadon, EFG Bank scored its second consecutive win in tournament play and earned [...]
By Alex Webbe
Daily News Polo columnist
Kris Kampsen scored a game-high eight goals for The Wanderers/Isla Carroll, but it was the balanced attack of Patagones that earned it a berth in Sunday’s Iglehart Cup finals on the strength of the 16-14 win Wednesday afternoon at the International Polo Club in Wellington..
“We just had to correct what [...]
By Alex Webbe
Daily News Polo Columnist
Temperatures dropped as the feature match of the Iglehart Cup at the International Polo Club Palm Beach got underway, but the pace continued to heat up as Luis Escobar led the EFG Bank team to a 13-11 win over Zacara in the opening round of the 20-goal tournament.
It was all [...]
By ALEX WEBBE
Daily News Polo Columnist
Wednesday, January 06, 2010
WELLINGTON — Kris Kampsen scored a game-high eight goals for The Wanderers/Isla Carroll Wednesday at the International Polo Club, but it was the balanced attack of Patagones that earned it a berth in Sunday’s Iglehart Cup finals on the strength of its 16-14 win.
“We just had to [...]
For Immediate Release - July 13th, 2009
Wellington’s Two Largest Landowners Join in Partnership to Secure Future
Growth of Equestrian Lifestyle.
The International Polo Club Palm Beach (IPC,) and the Wellington Equestrian Partners (WEP) announced today that they have come to an agreement, to work in partnership to promote, develop, and enhance, the world class equestrian destination of [...]