Posts Tagged ‘Marc Ganzi’
Crab Orchard Wins Polo Triple Crown!
With Crab Orchard’s 13-8 win over Audi in the finals of the 2010 United States Open Championship Sunday afternoon at the International Polo Club in Wellington, it became the first team to will all three trophies in the same season.
It was in 2007 that Crab Orchard won both the U. S. Open and the Gold [...]
Facundo Shines in 16-12 Audi Win
Audi 10-goaler Facundo Pieres scored twelve goals Wednesday afternoon against previously unbeaten Orchard Hill in a 16-12 win in the 2010 Arcalux United States Open Championship at the International Polo Club.
Facundo scored the first five goals of the game before brother Gonzalo added a goal for Audi , the 2009 defending US Open Champion, in [...]
Thousands Cheer Crab Orchard’s 12-7 Piaget Gold Cup Win
A veteran and balanced Crab Orchard attack scored seven straight goals from the third chukker to the fifth in taking the 2010 USPA Piaget Gold Cup championship Sunday afternoon in the finals against Las Monjitas at the International Polo Club.
“I was both pleased and excited to see over five thousand spectators on hand for the [...]
Crab Orchard cruises; Audi runs out of gas
Julio Arellano scored five times as Crab Orchard (2-0) downed Valiente, 10-7, to earn a berth in next Wednesday’s semifinals of the 2010 USPA Piaget Gold Cup at the International Polo Club in Wellington. Crab Orchard and Lechuza Caracas (2-0) will face one another on Saturday, March 13 at noon to decide the semifinal seeding.
Ten-goaler [...]
Crab Orchard goes to Whitney Cup Finals
The matchup of 10-goalers Adolfo Cambiaso and the two Pieres brothers is nothing new in the world of polo, but it is certainly something that serious polo fans had been anticipating,
as Cambiaso scored four goals in leading Crab Orchard to a 10-7 win over the 2009 defending championship Audi team Thursday afternoon at the International Polo Club [...]
EFG Bank Wins in OT
Pancho Bensadon scored the winning goal in the first minute of overtime in leading EFG Bank to an 11-10 win in the opening round of play in the 20-goal 2010 Herbie Pennell Cup at the International Polo Club in Wellington.
In a slow starting contest that saw only two goals scored in the opening chukker, the [...]
Hawks and Isla Carroll win in Ylvisaker Cup play
Kris Kampsen scored eight times as the Wanderers/Isla Carroll rebounded from a dismal opening half to defeat Bendabout 14-11 in Ylvisaker Cup play Thursday afternoon at the International Polo Club in Wellington.
Trailing by four goals, 7-3, after the second chukker of play, the Wanderers scored 11 goals over the course of the next four chukkers [...]
Audi
Team Captain Marc Ganzi has put together the finest string of horses and recruited three of the top players in the world in order to make a run at winning their first major high goal tournaments. Joining Ganzi are the brothers Pieres; Facundo, Gonzalito and Nicolas. What a powerhouse this team is as [...]
Audi Team Captures U.S. Open Polo Championship™
Hall of famer Gonzalo Pieres never won a U.S. Open, but today, his dream came true as he
watched his sons, Nicolas, Gonzalito and Facundo Pieres bring it home for Wellington’s own Audi, as they
captured the U.S. Open, defeating Las Monjitas 9-8 in sudden death overtime at International Polo Club Palm
Beach.
“We feel very fortunate to have [...]