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The team at World Polo would like to thank all of our sponsors who have worked together with us to make this a special event.In particular, we would like to thank our title sponsors at MINT. We are really pleased to have the opportunity to work with a company that has such a refreshing and energetic approach to business, life and of course sponsorship!

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World Polo would like to thank The Hurlingham Club and its members for allowing us to use their wonderful facilities. We would also like to thank The London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham for working with us to build this event.

World Polo would also like to thank Nikki Beach and welcome them to London for their first major party in UK.

A huge thanks also to the following sponsors of Nikki Beach Polo Players Party at MINT Polo in the Park; Elite Yacht Club (www.eliteyachtclub.co.uk) Snow Queen Vodka, Bacardi, Bombay Sapphire, Country And Town House.

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Contents

ALL THINGS POLO

10 Welcome from MINT

12 Introduction from Daniel Fox-Davies

14 Programme Guide

18 MINT Polo in the Park Map

20 The History of Polo

22 The Hurlingham Club

25 The Rules, Re-written

29 The A-Z of Polo Terms

34 The Teams

36 Team London

38 Team Moscow

40 Team Paris

42 Team Buenos Aires

44 Team New York

46 Team Sydney

LIFESTYLE

60 Interview: Time Lord

65 Object of desire: Havana Humidor

67 Comment: Is blue blood the new black

70 Must Have: The new Vertu Ascent

48 Team Durban

50 Team Geneva

52 Oxford vs Edinburgh

54 Harrods Afternoon Tea

56 4 of the best International Polo Clubs

58 Team Moscow Supports Alternative

Riding Therapy

78 Nikki Beach Party

80 Autograph Page

82 The Official MINT Polo in the Park

Merchandise

84 The Dallaglio Foundation

86 The Shopping Guide

92 Directory

94 Bar Tariffs

72 Motoring: Audi R8 Spyder

74 Sport: The Racing Association

76 Travel: Amanyara

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We at MINT are really proud to be sponsoring a new event in the London social and sporting calendar. The team at MINT is known for

their highly energised approach to business, as well as our reputation for dynamic solutions. For us to be able take up the rare opportunity to link with a fresh and innovative event in the heart of London and help it grow over the long term makes great sense and mirrors our approach to MINT’s own areas of business.

The idea of taking a traditional sport such as polo back to its home of Hurlingham Park is exciting in itself, but the prospect of introducing a new format of spectator friendly, high octane ‘Twenty20’ polo is something not to miss.

MINT would like to welcome you all to MINT Polo in the Park.

Welcome Thanks to all of the team at World Polo,

all those who have sponsored the event, and of course, a huge thanks to all of our clients, many of whom are here to watch MINT Polo in the Park.

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I am delighted to welcome you to MINT Polo in the Park 2010. After our initial launch in 2009, we have

now made a number of changes to enhance spectator enjoyment. We have also increased the number of teams from 4 to 8 and welcome new teams from Durban, Geneva, Paris and Sydney to the original line up of London, New York, Moscow and Buenos Aires. We have also increased the handicap level (the level of players) to 14 goals.

The event is the culmination of 12 months hard work from a number of groups and bodies, and I would particularly like to extend my thanks to the Hurlingham Polo Association for their support of the event, and to the Hammersmith and Fulham Council without whom we wouldn’t be able to stage the event at all. This year I must also extend my thanks to Mint, our new title sponsor and sponsor of Team London, who have been so enthusiastic in their support.

Hurlingham Park has a special place in the history of UK Polo. The first ever recorded game of polo in the UK was held on Blackheath in 1874, with the second game being held at the Hurlingham Club in 1876. The Club became the home of all UK and Commonwealth Polo from 1900 until 1939, and the pitch that we are using today was the venue for England’s triumph in the 1908 Olympics. It is in effect, the ‘Wembley’ of the Polo world!!

We are privileged to have several of the world’s leading players here with us for the Tournament. Mark Tomlinson is currently one of the UK’s highest handicapped players at 7 and plays for the English team. Henry Brett (6) is a former England Team

Captain and Glen Gilmore (6) is a former Captain of the Australian National team.

However, while Polo takes a lifetime to master, at its basic level it is very accessible. Over 90% of players are zero goals or below, people like me who play for fun and relaxation. It is a spectacular game to watch but it is an exhilarating game to play, and while previous riding experience certainly helps, many players come to the game having never ridden before, such as myself. Many players have been known to get bitten by the polo bug and become life long converts.

I would strongly urge anyone interested in the game to go and have an introductory lesson. There are several excellent clubs just outside London. The closest is Ham Polo club, which is conveniently located and has a fantastic bar! A little further a field we would recommend either the Royal Berkshire Polo Club or Ascot Polo Club. For those looking to travel a little further afield and make a day of it I would highly recommend the Beaufort Polo Club near Tetbury, set in the stunning Gloucestershire countryside. This is my home club and the school under the tuition of Casper West is an excellent place for beginners. Casper can be reached on 07775 59856 and people calling quoting Polo in the Park will receive a 30% discount on their initial lesson.

Thanks to all of you for coming and thanks again to all of our sponsors who make this event possible.

Daniel Fox-DaviesChairman World Polo

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Programme guide

Friday 4th June

12:00 Hurlingham Park grounds open to public

12:15 Watch last years epic final on the big screen

13:00 Team Photocall on the polo field – see all the players

13:40 Player skills display

14:00 Cheerleaders and Teams parade

14:30 1st Quarter Final Team Otkritie Moscow vs Team City AM New York

15:00 Treading the divots – a true polo tradition

16:00 Meet Team Moscow and Meet Team New York

for autographs and pictures

16:15 Cheerleaders and Teams Parade

16:30 2nd Quarter Final: IG Index Team Paris vs Gaucho Team Buenos Aires


18:00 Meet Team Paris and Meet Team Buenos Aires


18:10 BLAKE performance. Classical Brit Award Winners sing for your pleasure

18:30 3rd Quarter Final featuring MINT Team London v

Thomson Reuters Team Geneva


19:30- Meet Team London and Meet Team Geneva


20:00 Grounds close

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Programme guide

Saturday 5th June

10:00 Hurlingham Park grounds open to public

10:10 Watch the 2009 highlights

10:45 4th Quarter Final: Invisible Zinc Team Sydney v Silver Spring Team Durban


12:15 Meet Team Sydney and Meet Team Durban for autographs and pictures

12:30 Devil’s Horsemen Stunt Riders

13:10 Team Photocall on the polo field – see all the players



14:30 1st Semi Final for MINT Polo in the Park, who will make it to the final?

15:00 Treading the divots, a polo tradition

16:00 Meet the teams that have just played for autographs and pictures

16:10 BLAKE performance. Classical Brit Award Winners sing for your pleasure


16:30 2nd Semi final for MINT Polo in the Park, who will make it to the final?

18:00 Meet the teams that have just played for autographs and pictures

18:00 Devil’s horsemen Stunt Riders

20:00 Grounds close

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Sunday 6th June

10:00 Hurlingham Park Grounds open to public

10.10 Team Photocall on the polo field – see all the players


10:45 Audi Exhibition Match - Oxford University v Edinburgh University

11:15 Treading the divots, a polo tradition

12:15 Meet the Players, Team Edinburgh and Team Oxford for autographs and pictures

12:20 Devil’s Horsemen

13:05 Cheerleadintg display



14:30 MINT Polo in the park Final

15:00 Treading the divots a polo tradition

15:45 Trophy presentation for Audi Exhibition Game

15:55 Trophy presentation for winners of MINT Polo in the Park

16.10 BLAKE performance. Classical Brit Award Winners sing for your pleasure

16:15 Meet the winners of the 2010 MINT Polo in the Park final for autographs and pictures


16:30 Camino Real Plate Final (who will take 3rd place at MINT Polo in the Park 2010)

15:45 Trophy presentation for Camino Real Plate Final

18:00 Nikki Beach Polo after party at Hurlingham Club

18:10 Devil’s Horsemen Stunt Riders

20:00 Grounds close

SiteMapPolo in the Park 2010 has everything mapped out for the perfect summer day out – refer back to our site map and enjoy everything on offer from the Food Court and Kids Zone, to the polo field and the Veuve Clicquot Champagne Garden

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The History

Stewart and Major General Joe Shearer.

Malta followed in 1868 because soldiers and naval officers stopped off there on their way home from India. In 1869, Edward ‘Chicken’ Hartopp, of the 10th Hussars, read an account of the game in The Field magazine while stationed at Aldershot and planned a game on a hastily-rolled Hounslow Heath where ten rules were also hastily assembled.

But, it was John Watson (1856-1908) of the 13th Hussars, who formulated the first real rules of the game in India in the 1870s. He later formed the celebrated Freebooters team who won the first Westchester Cup match in 1886.

Polo is thought to have originated in China and Persia over 2,000 years ago, and the

first recorded game took place in 600 BC between the Turkomans and the Persians. Polo was at first thought to have been devised as a training game for cavalry units, usually the King’s Guard. To the warlike tribesmen, (who played it with as many as 100 to a side!) it was a miniature battle.

Over the years, the exciting game of polo became an Iranian national sport played by the nobility, and Persian literature and art offers a wealth of polo references. Ferdowsi (the famed Iranian poet-historian) gives a number of accounts of royal polo tournaments in his ninth century epic, Shahnameh (the

Epic of Kings) including an international match between Turanian force and the followers of Siyâvash (a legendary Iranian prince) and King Sapoor II who learned to play polo at just seven years old.

POPULARITY GROWSPolo was passed from Persia to other parts of Asia including the Indian subcontinent and China, gaining the nickname ‘Game of Kings’. In the 1850s, British tea planters discovered the game in Manipur on the Burmese border with India. They founded the world’s first polo club at Silchar, west of Manipur, and other clubs followed. Today, the oldest in the world is the Calcutta Polo Club which founded in 1862 by two British soldiers, Captain Robert

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POLO: THE TIMELINE

600 BC 300 AD 900 AD 1500 AD 1850 1870

600BC The first recorded game took place between the Turkomans and Persians (the Turkomans won)

Fourth century ADKing Sapoor II of Persia

learned to play polo, aged seven

600 AD

Seventh century ADPolo spreads from China to Japan

Sixteenth century ADA polo ground (300 yards long

and with goal posts 8 yards apart) was built at Ispahan, then

the capital of Persia, by Shah Abbas the Great.

1850sBritish tea planters

discovered the game in Manipur (Munipoor) on the Burmese border

with India

1862The first polo club in the

world was formed by British tea planters at Silchar, west

of Manipur. Calcutta Polo Club, the oldest existing polo club, was founded

1868Malta Polo Club was founded due mainly

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Today, polo is played in 80 countries worldwide. It was an Olympic sport from 1900 to 1939 and has now been recognised again by the International Olympic Committee.

1869Edward ‘Chicken’ Hartopp, 10th Hussars, read an account of the game and organised the first game in England – known then as “hockey on horseback”.

1872The polo club at Monmouthshire

was founded by Capt. Francis ‘Tip’ Herbert (1845 - 1922) near Abergavenny and the All Ireland

Polo Club was also founded in 1872 by Horace Rochfort.

1874Polo was established at Hurlingham

1875The first official match in Argentina took place on 3 September, where the game had been taken by English and Irish engineers and ranchers

1876Lt. Col. Thomas St. Quintin, 10th Hussars, introduced the game to Australia, and James Gordon Bennett Jr introduced it to America after seeing the game at Hurlingham

1919Height restriction on polo ponies was abolished.

1910Handicaps were introduced in England and India.

1895The height for polo ponies was raised from 14 hands to 14.2

POLO IN THE UKThe 10th Hussars at Aldershot, Hants, introduced polo to England in 1834 and the British are generally credited with spreading polo worldwide during the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth century.

Military officers imported the game to Britain in the 1860s and the establishment of polo clubs throughout England and Western Europe followed after the formal codification of rules. The game’s governing body in the UK is the Hurlingham Polo Association, which drew up the first set of formal British rules in 1874, many of which are still in existence.

Today, in association with the World Polo Series, MINT Polo in the Park has adapted the ‘old-school’ rules of polo

*Source: Hurlingham Polo Association, www.hpa-polo.co.uk

and introduced a new format of high-octane polo, with the aim of introducing a new audience to this exciting sport. Changes include using three players instead of four, a smaller field and a ‘D’ Ring amongst others. The changes mean a quicker more open game – it’s faster, harder and grittier – so even today, polo continues to grow in popularity as we move into the twenty-first century.

From before 1066 the lands of which Hurlingham forms part belonged to the

Bishops of London, who had their summer residence at Fulham Palace. By the mid-eighteenth century the landscape was one of gardens and in 1760 Dr William Cadogan (a famous physician of his day), leased nine acres from the Bishops on which he built for himself a ‘cottage’ – the core of the present Hurlingham House.

In 1797 the lease was re-granted to John Ellis who, in 1800, acquired the freehold with an additional eleven acres. Mr Ellis employed the architect George Byfield with landscape advice from Humphrey Repton to enlarge the ‘cottage’ into the neo-classic mansion as we see it today.

In 1807 the estate was sold to the 3rd Earl of Egremont, a magnificent patron of the Arts and the Turf, who in 1820, sold it on to Mr John Horsley Palmer, who later became Governor of the Bank of England. He added a further sixteen acres to the property.

The last private owner of Hurlingham from 1860 was Richard Naylor, a great Victorian capitalist and builder of the Liverpool Cotton Exchange. He cleared £100,000 when his horse ‘Macaroni’ won the Derby of 1863 and gave his winnings to the poor of Liverpool.

THE CLUBIn 1867 Mr Frank Heathcote obtained the leave of Mr. Naylor to promote pigeon shooting matches at Hurlingham. His next step was the formation of the Hurlingham Club originally for this

purpose and “as an agreeable country resort”. The Club leased the estate from Mr. Naylor in 1869 and in 1874 acquired the freehold.

The pigeon is still the Club’s crest. Until 1905 clouds of live pigeons were released in the summer from an enclosure near the present Tennis Pavilion. Many of the members who were keen shots, (including The Prince of Wales, later to become King Edward VII), lost “their eye in” during the summer months and pigeon shooting provided the perfect solution so that their game books would be filled with fantastic numbers of shot quarry in the winter.

POLO AT THE CLUBPolo was brought to England in 1869. Owing largely to the initiative of one of the Club’s first

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Trustees, Lord De L’Isle and Dudley, and its Manager, Captain the Hon. J. D. (later Lord) Monson, the game was established at Hurlingham in 1874.

Polo was first played at Hurlingham Park in 1874, five years after the first official game of polo in England between the 9th Lancers and the 10th Hussars on Hounslow Heath. The name “Hurlingham” then became synonymous with polo and for 65 years The Hurlingham Club was the headquarters for polo for Britain and its Empire.

So Hurlingham became the undisputed home of polo after having hosted the 1908 Olympics Polo final (when England won the gold medal), and the prestigious Westchester Cup between England and USA from 1910 to 1939.

It then became, and remained until the Second World War, the headquarters of Polo for the British Empire and the scene of major competitions. But with the outbreak of the Second World War, the polo grounds – that once attracted 10,000 spectators – were converted into allotments, and the last polo event took place at Hurlingham in 1939 between a team called The Jaguars and a team called Milers.

But the name of Hurlingham lived on in the sport, lending its name to the Hurlingham Polo

Association. Seventy years on, and over 80% of polo playing countries play under the rules of the HPA.

The estate was extended during the polo era with the acquisition of the Mulgrave House property (comprising the area to the north and west of the lake and the lake itself) in 1879 and the Broom House property (the present cricket field and the lawns to the east of the Clubhouse) in 1912.

In later years, the Westchester Cup match was revived at Smith’s Lawn, Windsor in 1992 and the Cup Ball was again held at Hurlingham.

From its early days the Club diversified its activities. Ladies were welcomed on the scene and it was even said that “Hurlingham is for sweet frivolity and not for sport”. The summer season was enlivened with pony shows, car rallies, balloon ascents, archery and bicycle competitions.

WARS & SURVIVALDuring the Great War of 1914-18, Yeomanry and an R.N.A.S. balloon detachment were based at the Club. In 1928 there was a disastrous Thames flood when water reached heights of six feet in the grounds and nine inches in the reception rooms. However, from 1933 things improved with the building of the

outdoor swimming pool. Squash courts were constructed in 1934 and Bowls began a year later. The Club was then opened in winter with the re-establishment of a nine-hole golf course.

During WWII, an anti-aircraft battery and balloon barrage unit were based at the Club and the main Polo ground was turned into allotments for growing vegetables. The estate withstood twenty-seven bombs and a landmine, with serious damage to both ends of the Clubhouse, including the destruction of the magnificent crystal dome which then crowned the east wing.

After the war both the polo grounds were compulsorily purchased by the London County Council and became respectively a recreation ground – Hurlingham Park – and a school and council flats. The club was left with the residue of the estate (about 42 acres) as it is today.

In 2008, World Polo Limited signed an exclusive deal to reinstate the grounds at Hurlingham Park and bring polo back to its British roots. It is with thanks to World Polo that the magnificent game of polo, in whatever form, is being revived and lives on again at the real home of the sport, The Hurlingham Club.

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More exciting and more exhilarating than ever, The World Polo Series has re-written the rulebook and created a new branch of adrenaline-fuelled polo, right here in London

The Rules,

THE OLD RULESThe earliest official rules of polo originate from England, where they were first established by the Hurlingham Polo Club, founded in 1876. It was three years later when the Americans, who had actually discovered the sport of polo for themselves and had founded the Westchester Polo Club in Newport, Rhode Island, asked the British founding officers of the Hurlingham Club to write a definitive version of the Hurlingham Rules and to draw up corresponding club rules. These are still valid to this day. The Americans themselves devised the handicap system, which was also adopted by Britain and India in 1910.

Polo can be played on practically any level field of sufficient size. The ground must be firm and constantly maintained (not too moist, too deep or too hard or slippery). The official international dimensions of a polo field marked out with lines and distance markers (30, 40 and 60 yards to the goal) are 166 yards wide by 300 yards long. However, match organisers are increasingly allowing play on smaller fields. The advantage is that it is easier for spectators to watch. The drawback is slower play, with shorter passes. The goal has uprights but no crossbar, and is eight yards wide.

Teams Each team consists of four players. Number 3 is the captain, who commands the team. Number 4 (also known as ‘back’) is responsible for defence, while Number 1 and Number 2 are attackers.

Handicap Depending on aptitude, each polo player plays with a handicap ranging from -2 to +10. While the entry level of -2 denotes a beginner, very few players in the world hold the highest possible handicap of +10, and most of these are South Americans. Around 90% of all polo players have handicaps in the range 0 to +2. The national polo associations review and assign individual players’ handicaps annually, according to success in the tournaments. When a team is put together, the handicaps of the four individual players are added up to give the team handicap. Tournaments are advertised in various classes of play (low-, medium- or high-goal), and the team handicaps of the registering teams must correspond to these.

Chukka Depending on the organisation of the tournament, a polo match consists of four, five or six time units known as chukkas. In Europe, a match normally consists of four chukkas, each lasting seven and a half minutes. The last chukka of the game lasts exactly seven minutes. A pony can be played in no more than two chukkas in any one match, and not in consecutive chukkas. This means that ponies are changed between chukkas. At half-time (generally after two chukkas), there is a five to ten minute break, during which the

public are asked to walk on to the field and ‘tread’ in’ the divots of turf carved up by the ponies’ hooves.

Direction of Play The game has one curious tradition, which always confuses the newcomers to polo. Whenever a goal is scored, the direction of play switches. The rule traces its origin to the hotter climes of the empire on which the sun never set. Playing against a low and dazzling sun put one team at a decisive

disadvantage.

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Line of the ballThe fundamental and most important rule of the sport of polo is known as ‘Right of Way’ (ROW). Whenever the ball is in play, a right of way exists and is always deemed to be held by the player who is established on, or at the closest angle to, the Line of the Ball (LOB = the extended path along which the ball has travelled, or is travelling). No other player may enter or cross this ROW. Players may not position or check their ponies over the line if this poses the slightest risk of collision with the player who currently has ROW.

The player with ROW can only lose ROW by being ‘ridden off’ or ‘hooked’. ‘Hooking’ means using the stick to prevent the other player from retrieving or striking the ball. This is done by blocking the opponent’s stick during a swing or while the other player is tapping or dribbling the ball. It is forbidden to hook over the body of the opponent’s pony. ‘Riding ff’ means trying to force an opponent, who is riding parallel, off course by a kind of body check, so that the player can no longer hit the ball. Riding off is allowed, provided it takes place parallel, and not at an angle, to the player who has ROW.

Tapping techniques In principle the ball is tapped on the right side of the pony, known as the ‘offside’. Tapping takes place in a forward (offside forehand) or backward (offside backhand) direction. For a ‘nearside’ play, which takes place on the pony’s left side, the player has to twist in the saddle and, holding the stick in his right hand, bring it to the other side of the pony. Nearside forehand and nearside backhand are the corresponding forward and backward plays. ‘Under the neck’ refers to strokes

performed in front of, or under the neck of, the pony. Among the trickiest manoeuvres are ‘round-the-tail’ strokes, performed to the rear of the horse.

The Polo Pony The present-day polo pony (height 14.5-16 hands, or 155-160cm) far exceeds pony height. It traces its pedigree back to the crossing of the original Himalayan mountain ponies (13 hands or less – 125-135cm), the Manipuris of Assam, with English or American thoroughbreds, Arabians and others, especially South American stud horses. The Argentinian polo breed still dominates. These tough little horses are masters of the sudden burst of speed. Brave and pugnacious, their agility and alertness are second to none.

Equipment and TackEach player carries a mallet around 52 inches long (lengths and weights vary according to pony height and player preference) The mallet is usually made from a bamboo cane, (although as with advanced equipment technology in most other sports, graphite is becoming popular), with a tapered ‘cigar’ head, commonly of Argentine Tipuana Blanca wood. The handle is fitted with a fabric sling, which is wrapped round the hand for stability during tapping. All players must wear a helmet, preferably with face guard. Leather knee guards are also required. The legs of the ponies themselves are protected from blows and flying balls by soft bandages. Their tails are tied to prevent entanglement with the mallet.

Light saddles without knee rolls are used; tack consists of a double rein preventing loss of control if a rein snaps, and helping the pony maintain balance. The breast girth

and standing martingale prevent the saddle from slipping and guarantee support for the rider during sudden changes in direction or abrupt stopping.

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THE NEW RULESWorld Polo has made crucial changes to the game in order to create a much more spectator friendly game for those watching at the side of the polo ground, as well as for those spectators around the globe, who are watching at home from the comfort of their armchair.

The World Polo Series is based upon the excitement of the old-fashioned traditions of the game which has been widely played for the last century. However World Polo has made one or two little ‘adjustments’!

Size of teamTo promote a more open and fast paced game, each team will consist of three players instead of four.

Goal hit outsPlayers will hit out after a goal when the umpires call play.

Ball out of playIf the ball goes out of play there will be a throw in. However if a player is deemed to have deliberately hit the ball out of play, a spot hit will be awarded to the opposing team.

The Field and the ‘D’ Ring The World Polo pitch is made up of not four sides but eight; it’s octagonal. The eight sided pitch is a shorter length, 250 yards, as opposed to 330 yards off the original and of course it is the narrower width of 120 yards, 166 yards being the original, except the corners have been ‘cut off’ in order to keep the ball in play much longer.

The goal posts are still eight yards apart and there is still a centre line with a starting marker in the middle of it. The difference here is that the penalty line markers have been removed and replaced with a ‘D’ ring, as one might find in hockey. A goal scored inside the ‘D’ ring is rewarded with one goal and a goal scored out the ‘D’ ring is awarded two goals.

The EquipmentHelmets, face guards, mallets, knee pads and other equipment which is in direct contact with the polo pony remains much the same. For the player though, the traditional white polo breeches

have been replaced with white polo jeans. The white polo ball has remained the same size of four and a half inches, however it has changed colour to orange.

Changing Ends The complicated rule of changing ends every time a goal is scored has been replaced with the new rule, (similar to the rule played by most sports) of changing ends after each half of the game.

Umpires Usually the game is umpired by one or two mounted umpires with a single sid e line umpire, who is not mounted. World Polo has adopted more advanced judgement techniques. With the backup use of television playback (as with soccer, rugby or baseball for instance), World Polo Umpires will have access to comprehensive close up camera shots of the play. This avoids any difficult umpire decisions being disrupted.

Spectator Vision Not only will spectators watching the game on their televisions be able to see the details of the game with ‘slow motion’ play

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TheA-Z of Polo Terms

APPEALING Claims by players for a foul generally expressed by the raising of sticks above their heads. Over demonstrative appealing is considered very bad form.

BACK The number four in a polo team is invariably referred to as the ‘Back’ rather than by his number, as are the other members of the team.

BALL White and made of plastic or wood. It weighs four and a half ounces and is three and a half inches in diameter.

BELL OR HOOTER This is situated off the side of the field and is rung by the timekeeper to inform umpires when seven minutes of play in chukka have elapsed.

BOARDS Wooden boards, up to 11 inches in height, which run continuously along the side lines of the ground to keep the ball in play as much as possible, in order to keep the game flowing.

BUMP A player is permitted to ride-off another to spoil his shot or to remove him away from the play. The angle of contact must be no more than 45 degrees. The faster the pony travels, the smaller the angle must be. A good bump can shake discs and dentures loose!

CHUKKA There are six chukkas (periods) in high handicap matches, each lasting seven minutes plus up to 30 seconds of overtime. If during the extra 30 seconds, the ball hits the sideboards or goes out of bounds, or if the umpire blows his whistle for a foul, the chukka is over. There is no overtime at the end of the final chukka unless the score is tied. Players return to the field each chukka with a fresh pony. Chukka comes from the Indian word for a circle or round.

DIVOTS Turf kicked up by ponies’ hooves.

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ENDS The back lines of the polo pitch. Teams change ends, i.e. switch the halves they defend, each time a goal is scored in order to equalise wind and turf conditions.

EQUIPMENT Hard helmets for players are compulsory. Face-guards, knee pads, whips and spurs are optional.

FIELD A full size polo field is 300 yards by 160 yards, or the area of three soccer pitches. The goal posts, which collapse on severe impact, are set eight yards apart.

GOAL Any time the ball fully crosses, at any height, the line between the goal posts, it is a goal regardless of who knocks it through, including the pony.

HANDICAP All players are

rated on a scale of -two to ten (the higher the better). Although the word ‘goal’ is often used after the rating, it bears no relation to the number of goals a player scores in a match, but to his overall playing ability. A player’s horsemanship, range of strokes, speed of play, game and sense are the factors considered in determining his or her handicap. The team handicap is the sum of is

player’s handicaps. In handicap matches of six chukkas, the

team with the lower handicap is awarded the difference in goals at the start of the game. For example,

a 26-goal team would give two goals start to a 24-goal team.

For matches other than six chukkas, the side with the lower handicap begins with a number of goals start according to the following formula. The difference in the teams’ handicaps is multiplied by the number of chukkas to be

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played and then divided by six. Fractions count as half a goal. For example, a 26-goal team would give a 24- goal team 1 and a half goals start in a four chukka match.

HIGH GOAL Teams with a total handicap from 17 to 24 goals. It is the highest level of official tournament polo played in the United Kingdom.

HIRED ASSASIN A professional player.

HOOK- The hook, or hooking, is when a player uses their mallet to block or interfere with an opponent’s swing by hooking the mallet of the other player with their own mallet. A player may only hook if is he/she is on the side where the swing is being made or directly in front or behind an opponent.

HPA – THE HURLINGHAM POLO ASSOCIATION This is the governing body of the game in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Its governing officials are called stewards. They should not be confused with club stewards who are much more important and who guide and advise members while at the club.

INTERMEDIATE Teams with a total handicap of 8–12 goals.

INTERVALS Three-minute long rest periods between chukkas. Half-time is five minutes.

JUDGES Goal judges are positioned behind each goal to signal when a goal has been scored. Hard hats are worn for protection.

KNOCK-IN Should a team hit the ball over the opponent’s backline during an attack, the defending team resumes the game with a free hit from the backline where the ball went over. It is equivalent to a goal kick in football.

LINE OF THE BALL ‘Crossing the line’ is the most frequent foul in polo. The line of the ball, namely the imaginary line along which the ball travels, represents a right of

way for the player following nearest that line. There are strict rules governing opponents’ entry in to the right of way in the interest of safety.

LOW GOAL Teams with a total handicap of four-eight goals.

MALLET/STICK The shaft is made from bamboo cane or graphite composite and the head from a hard wood. The wide face of the stick head is used to strike the ball and not the ends, as in croquet. Polo sticks range in length according, principally, to the height of the pony played and extended from 48 to 54 inches.

MEDIUM GOAL Teams with a total handicap of 12-15 goals.

MILLIONAIRE’S SHOT A shot at the ball by an inexpert player when the ball is very close to the legs of the pony or sticking it under the belly of the pony. So called because a high degree of skill and timing is required for both shots, if the legs of the pony are to avoid being struck

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NEARSIDE The left-hand side of the pony.

NECKSHOT A ball which is hit under the pony’s neck.

OUT-OF-BOUNDS When a ball goes over the sideboards, it is considered out-of-bounds. The umpire throws the ball in between the two teams lined up at the point at which it left the field of play. It is equivalent to a throw-in in football.

OFFSIDE The right-hand side of the pony. There is no offside of players in the game of polo.

PATRON A financially unchallenged amateur player who pays to put a team together, which is usually made up of at least two professionals and is normally named after the patron’s house, company or whimsy e.g. Cannon Fodder.

PENALTY A free hit is awarded when a foul is committed. The hit is taken from a set distance, dependent on the severity of the offence. Penalties and distance are as follows:

Penalty 1: Automatic goalPenalty 2: From 30 yards to an open goalPenalty 3: From 40 yards to an open goalPenalty 4: From 60 yards to a defended goalPenalty 5: from anywhere on the groundPenalty 5B: From the centre of the ground programme.

PONIES Although termed ‘ponies’ they are in fact horses, i.e. above 14.2 hands height of a normally defined pony. Most are of the Argentine Criollo breed or pure or cross thoroughbreds. Their main qualities are speed and stamina; and temperaments that are amenable to the rigours of the game. There is no height limit for the ponies, although most are between 15 and 15.3 hands. Bandages or leg wraps are used for support and protection. Players admit that the pony can account for as much as 80% of their overall performance.

POSITIONS Each of the four team members plays a distinctly different position. Since polo is such a fluid game, players momentarily change positions, but will try to return to their original assignment.

No.1: Essentially a goal strikerNo. 2: Also a forward, but plays harder, especially on defenceNo. 3: The pivotal player between offence and defence who tries to turn all plays to offence. He is usually the highest rated player on the teamNo 4: Is the most defensive player whose primary responsibility is to protect the goal area

QUARTER HORSE Polo demands the speed of a thoroughbred, the intelligence of an Arabian, and the agility of a quarter horse. QUARTET The number of players needed in a team. QUEASY The feeling a polo player gets just before a fall!

RIDE-OFF Two riders may make contact and push each other off the line to prevent the other from striking the ball. It is primarily intended for the ponies to do the pushing, but a player is allowed to use his body, but not his elbows.

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SAFETY Also known as a Penalty 6, a safety is awarded when a defending player hits the ball over his own backline. The free shot is taken 60 yards out from the backline, opposite the point at which the ball went over. It is equivalent to a corner in soccer and no defender can be nearer than 30 yards from the ball when it is played.

SIDEBOARD These are nine to eleven inch high vertical boards along the sidelines only. Such sideboards are optional.

TAILSHOT Hitting the ball behind and under the pony’s rump.

TAKE HIM OUT Not an invitation but an exhortation to a team mate to ride off an opponent to take him away from the play.

THIRDMAN The referee sitting at the sidelines who will arbitrate, if the two mounted umpires on the field are unable to agree a foul.

TIME-OUT Called by an umpire when

a foul is committed, an accident occurs or at his discretion. A player may call time-out if he has broken a key piece of tack or is injured. Time-out is not

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changing ponies or for replacing a broken stick, although a player may do so at any time.

TREADING IN The replacement, at half-time, of divots of turf. This is the duty of the spectators.

UMPIRES Two mounted umpires (one for each side of the field)

VIP The team patron

WELLINGTONS Rubber boots ideal for treading-in the divots during wet weather!

XTRA TIME In the event of a tied score at the end of the final chukka, there will be a five-minute break to allow the players to catch their breath and change to a fresh pony before beginning a sudden death chukka. The first team to score wins. In extra time, the goal area is usually widened by moving the goal posts an extra eight yards apart.

YOUR LINE Words often heard shouted by players to a team mate indicating that he has, rather than an opponent, the principal right of way to the ball.

ZONE (SAFETY) The area around the pitch that is out of bounds for spectators during play.

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The TeamsPolo in The Park 2010

Team London Captain: Mark Tomlinson

Team Paris Captain: Lucas White

Team New York Captain: Jack Kidd

Team Buenos Aires Captain: Lucas Talimoni

Team Moscow Captain: Tom Morley

Team Sydney Captain: Glen Gilmore

Team Durban Captain: Derrick Bratley

It is an exciting prospect to see polo return to central London. Polo in the Park will add to the wealth of sporting activities that Londoners can enjoy”

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Team Geneva Captain: Sacha Pictet

Team LondonEight teams; three players; and one chance to win. We decided to find out a bit more about the individual players, from their personal handicap and favourite pony, to their local clubs and career highlights

David AshbyQ: What are you most looking forward to at Polo in the Park?A: “Testing our skill against international teams...and taking the cup home”

Mark TomlinsonQ: What are you most looking forward to at Polo in the Park?A: “The atmosphere of playing in the City”

Mark Tomlinson, nicknamed ‘Chimp’ on the polo pitch, is this year’s captain of the London ‘home’ team. Tomlinson plays with a handicap of 7 at his local club, Beaufort, and keeps 10 ponies, one of which is his favourite, Hestenel. His career highlights include winning The British Open, and playing The Argentina Open. During winter Tomlinson plays in Argentina but names Barbados as the best location he has played in. Aged 28, he is single.

Player No.1Mark Tomlinson (C)

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Nina Clarkin

Q: What are you most looking

forward to at Polo in the Park?

A: “Playing at the original

home of polo”

David Ashby, nicknamed ‘Danger’ on the polo field (after an episode with an AK47 in Pakistand whilst on a polo tour), is originally from Northamptonshire, and started playing polo at school before turning professional when he left. Ashby plays with a handicap of 3 at his local clubs, Cirencester and Kirtlington. During winter Ashby plays in Argentina.

Player No.3David Ashby

27 year old Nina Clarkin plays with a handicap of 4, and can usually be found playing on her best pony, Muffit, at her home club Cirencester Park throughout the English polo season. She is the highest ranked female player in the world. Nina has played with various teams to win a long string of victories over the years and her career highlights include winning the Gold Cup in 2003, the Holden White and the Gerald Balding with her girls’ team in 2007 and winning the New Zealand Open.

Player No.2Nina Clarkin

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Team MoscowEight teams; three players; and one chance to win. We decided to find out a bit more about the individual players, from their personal handicap and favourite pony, to their local clubs and career highlights

Jack RichardsonQ: What are you most looking forward to at Polo in the Park?A: “The roar of the crowd when I win”

Tom Morley (C)Q: What are you most looking forward to at Polo in the Park?A: “The crowds”

Tom Morley is this year’s captain of the Moscow team. Morley plays with a handicap of 6 at his local club, Cowdray, and keeps 16 ponies, including his favourite, Tina. His career highlights include captaining England to the European championships to get the world championships, winning the 20/20 Ball Goal Paloma Argentina tournament and playing in the Gold Cup. During winter Morley plays in Argentina, Barbados and New Zealand and names Barbados as the best location he has played in. Aged 29, he is married.

Player No.1Tom Morley (C)

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Gaston Devriant



A: “To bring polo back to

the people”

Gaston Devriant holds a handicap of 5, and plays at his local club, Guards Club. He keeps 9 ponies, including his favourite, Milonga. His career highlights include the Gold Cup in Brunei, winning the Open of Santa Fe High Goal tournament and playing at the Camara De Diputados (28 goals). During winter Devriant plays in UK Arena but he names the Lakes in Southern Chile as the best location he has played in. Devriant is married with a new baby.

Jack Richardson plays with a handicap of 3 at his local club, Knepp Castle, and keeps 8 ponies, one of which is his favourite, Magic. His career highlights include being voted for as best low goal player, and playing in the Queen’s Cup. During winter Richardson plays in Argentina, the place he names as the best location he has played in. Aged 18, he is single.Player No.3

Jack Richardson

Player No.2Gaston Devriant

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Team ParisEight teams; three players; and one chance to win. We decided to find out a bit more about the individual players, from their personal handicap and favourite pony, to their local clubs and career highlights

Andrea VianiniQ: What are you most looking forward to at Polo in the Park?A: “Winning and having fun”

Lucas WhiteQ: What are you most looking forward to at Polo in the Park?A: “Winning, and the people”

Lucas White, plays with a handicap of 2 at his local club, Cowdray, and keeps 12 ponies, one of which is his favourite, Shadow. His career highlights include playing in the Gold Cup, and winning the Pacific Coast Open. White names Carais, Mexico as the best location he has played in. Aged 35, he is married and has 1 child.

Player No.1Lucas White

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Tito Ruiz Guinazie



A: “Winning”

Andrea Vianini plays with a handicap of 6 at his local club, Cowdray, and keeps 9 ponies, including his favourite, Sati. His career highlights include winning the Challenge Cup and playing at the Open in Argentina. During winter Vianini plays in Argentina but names England as the best location he has played in. Aged 44, he is single.

Tito Ruiz Guinazie plays with a handicap of 6 at his local club, Herwood Park, and keeps 8 ponies, one of which is his favourite, Picara. His career highlights include playing in the Gold Cup and the British Open, and winning the Repoliga tournament. During winter Guinazie plays in Argentina but names England as the best location he has played in. Aged 21, he is single.

Player No.2 Tito Ruiz Guinazie

Player No.3Andrea Vianini

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Team Buenos AiresEight teams; three players; and one chance to win. We decided to find out a bit more about the individual players, from their personal handicap and favourite pony, to their local clubs and career highlights

Oscar ManciniQ: What are you most looking forward to at Polo in the Park?A: “Winning the final and being with my girlfriend”

Lucas TalimoniQ: What are you most looking forward to at Polo in the Park?A: “Winning this year and playing well as a team”

30 year old Lucas Talamoni is this year’s captain of the Buenos Aires team. Talamoni plays with a handicap of 6 at his local club, the Guards, and keeps 10 ponies, one of which is his favourite, Coca. His career highlights include winning the Provencia Buenos Aires tournament and playing in the Nine Dragons Gold Cup in China. During winter Talamoni plays in Argentina and Thailand and names Argentina as the best location he has played in.

Player No.1 Lucas Talimoni (C)

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Team Buenos Aires

Nico Talimoni


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Park?

A: ““Winning the cup”

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Oscar Mancini plays with a handicap of 4 at his local club, The Royal County Berkshire, and keeps 14 ponies, one of which is his favourite, Sol. His career highlights include St Moritz Snow Polo, winning the Gold Cup UK, and playing at Palerno Buenos Aires. During winter Mancini plays in Argentina and Switzerland and names Argentina as the best location he has played in. Aged 35.

Nico Talimoni plays at his local club, Fifield, with a handicap of 4 – and he keeps 8 ponies, including his favourite, La Ruvia 14. His career highlights include playing at last year’s Polo in the Park and the Roehampton Cup, and winning the Replica of Argentina tournament. During winter Talimoni plays in Argentina and Thailand and names Argentina as the best location he has played in. Aged 25, he is married.

Player No.2Nico Talimoni

Player No.3Oscar Mancini

Team New YorkEight teams; three players; and one chance to win. We decided to find out a bit more about the individual players, from their personal handicap and favourite pony, to their local clubs and career highlights

Jamie MorrisonQ: What are you most looking forward to at Polo in the Park?A: “Trying to win, and the after-party”

Jack KiddQ: What are you most looking forward to at Polo in the Park?A: “Playing inside a major city”

Jack Kidd, nicknamed ‘Wacko’ on the polo field, is this year’s captain of the New York team. Kidd plays with a handicap of 4 at his local club, Fifield, and keeps 12 ponies, one of which is his favourite, Dorado. His career highlights include winning gold for England FIP, winning the San Moritz High Goal Snow Polo tournament and playing in the St Tropez Gold Cup. During winter Kidd plays in Barbados and Arena UK and names Barbados as the best location he has played in. Aged 36, he is married and has four children.

Player No.1Jack Kidd (C)

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Jamie Morrison, nicknamed ‘Morro’ on the polo field, holds a handicap of 4. Morrison plays at his local club, The Royal County Berkshire, and keeps 11 ponies, including his favourite, Torta Negra. His career highlights include the Prince of Wales High Goal tournament and winning the Gold Cup. During winter Morrison plays in Berkshire and names Brazil Campinas Polomo as the best location he has played in. Aged 33, he is single.

Player No.3Jamie Morrison

Henry Brett, nicknamed ‘Rat’ on the polo field, has played from the age of 13 and now holds a handicap of 6. He turned professional at 17, played for England at the age of 21, and continued representing England for 10 years. Brett plays at the club he set up, Brett Polo, and keeps 45 ponies, one of which is his favourite, Mandarinka. His career highlights include winning the Gold Cup and playing in the Camara Argentina tournament. During winter Brett plays in Argentina and Australia, but names South Africa as the best location he has played in. Aged 35, he is single.

Player No.2Henry Brett

Henry Brett



A: “Trying to win”

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Team SydneyEight teams; three players; and one chance to win. We decided to find out a bit more about the individual players, from their personal handicap and favourite pony, to their local clubs and career highlights

Jack ArchibaldQ: What are you most looking forward to at Polo in the Park?A: “Showing the spectators how we do it Down Under”

Glen GilmoreQ: What are you most looking forward to at Polo in the Park?A: “The atmosphere, crowds and buzz – and beating the Pommies”

Glen Gilmore, professional polo player and G. H. MUMM National Polo Ambassador, is this year’s captain of the Sydney team. Gilmore has played professionally since the age of 21 and has captained the Australian team for 10 years. He holds a handicap of 6 and is looking forward to taking on the international teams at Polo in the Park. Glen is married with two children.

Player No.1Glen Gilmore (C)

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Kelvin Johnson, nicknamed ‘Cowboy Kel’ on the polo field, plays with a handicap of 4 at his local club, Cirencester, and keeps 10 ponies, including his favourite, Twiggy. He was practically “born and raised” on horseback and started his polo career in 1998 at the late age of 25, after years of representative Polocrosse and “the odd rodeo”. His career highlights include playing in the Warwickshire tournament, where he scored 22 goals. During winter Johnson plays in Australia and names Ellerston as the best location he has played in. Aged 36, he is married with a baby daughter.

Jack Archibald, nicknamed ‘Arch’ on the polo field, plays with a handicap of 3 at his local club, Black Bears, and breeds ponies. He currently keeps around 127 ponies, including his favourite, Flako. His career highlights include winning the Melbourne Cup, and playing in the Kerry Packer Challenge. During winter Archibald plays in Australia and names Ellerston as the best location he has played in. Aged 20, he is “very single”.

Player No.3Jack Archibald

Player No.2Kelvin Johnson

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A: “The atmosphere when the

crowd get behind you”

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Team DurbanEight teams; three players; and one chance to win. We decided to find out a bit more about the individual players, from their personal handicap and favourite pony, to their local clubs and career highlights

Gareth EvansQ: What are you most looking forward to at Polo in the Park?A: “Playing a fast paced game with a big, excitable crowd and the after-party!”

Derrick Bratley (C)Q: What are you most looking forward to at Polo in the Park?A: “Exciting high octane play and being in London”

Derrick Bratley, nicknamed ‘Der’ on the polo field, is this year’s captain of the Durban team. Bratley plays with a handicap of 5 at his local club, Cowdray Park, and keeps 12 ponies, one of which is his favourite, Halford. His career highlights include being picked for Team South Africa, winning the Autumn Cup at Cowdray and playing in the Gold Cup. During winter Bratley plays in South Africa and names Plettenberg Bay as the best location he has ever played in. Aged 29, he is single.

Player No.1Derrick Bratley (C)

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Leroux Hendriks



A: “The roar of the crowd when

I win”

Gareth Evans plays with a handicap of 6 at his home clubs, Kurland and Cadwallon. He currently plays as a professional in the UK and comes from a polo playing family. He has played for the South African team for a number of years and his career highlights include captaining a winning South African team against Italy in Cape Town recently, and playing the High Goal with Geebung, Broncos, Sumaya and Azzura. Aged 27, he is engaged.

30 year old Leroux Hendricks plays with a handicap of 3 at his local club, Cowdray, and keeps 8 ponies. His career highlights include the Queen’s Cup and winning the St Tropez High Goal tournament. During winter Hendricks plays in Argentina, the country he names as the best location he has played in.

Player No.2Leroux Hendriks

Player No.3Gareth Evans

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Team GenevaEight teams; three players; and one chance to win. We decided to find out a bit more about the individual players, from their personal handicap and favourite pony, to their local clubs and career highlights

Andrea VianiniQ: What are you most looking forward to at Polo in the Park?A: “Playing polo in London

Sacha PictetQ: What are you most looking forward to at Polo in the Park?A: “Hearing the roar of the crowd”

Sacha Pictet, plays with a handicap of 2 at his local club, Knepp Polo Club, and keeps 6 ponies, one of which is his favourite, Cartera. He learnt to play polo at the Polo Club de Veytey with current teammate Martin Luginbuhl, and in his later years went on to compete on the varsity polo team for the University of Connecticut in the USA. His career highlights include playing for the Swiss national team and winning the Gstaad Polo Gold Cup. Surprisingly, Pictet does not play polo during winter but he does name Argentina as the best location he has played in. Aged 25, he is single – and interestingly, he is allergic to horses!

Player No.1Sacha Pictet (C)

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Martin Luginbuhl



A: “Playing with old friends,

Sacha Pictet and the Delfosse

brothers, and sharing the

passion of the game with the

spectators from London”

Argentinean-born Alejandro Diaz Alberi, nicknamed ‘Piki’ on the polo field, plays with a handicap of 8. His career highlights include playing in the Ellerstina Gold Cup in 2009, the Queen’s Cup in 2006, and the British Open, Queen’s Cup, Cartier World Cup on Snow in 2005. Throughout the year, he plays in Argentina, Spain, Switzerland, the UK and the USA. Aged 40, he is married.

Martin Luginbuhl plays with a handicap of 2 – he grew up playing at Polo Club de Veytey where he is still very involved in polo activities today. After 14 years of playing, his career highlights include winning the title of Swiss Champion four times, coming fourth at the 2008 European Open Championship in Germany, and winning the Jaeger-LeCoultre Polo Masters in Geneva four times. Aged 24, Martin lives in Geneva and works in marketing.

Player No.2Martin Luginbuhl

Player No.3Alejandro Diaz Alberdi

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This is the second time this season that Oxford has faced up to Edinburgh, since both sides met in the Open Final at the University Indoor Championships in March. On that occasion Edinburgh hauled themselves back onto level terms in the final chukka, having been 6-2 down at half time, before edging ahead in added time. The Oxford team are sincerely hoping for some retribution this time around.

The Oxford team is once again approaching the business end of the season (off the back of some very promising results this summer), as they shape up to defend their crown against Cambridge in the Annual Jack Wills Varsity Match at Guards on Saturday, 12 June. We decided to take a closer look at the two teams, before the match begins...

The dreaming spires team ready themselves to take on the Scots in an exhilarating polo match this summer on Sunday, 6 June

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Tommy Mayou, 21 years 1 goalThis is Tommy’s first year as Captain of the Oxford side, having been a prominent member of the unbeaten 2009 team. He has relished the fantastic opportunities that playing for Oxford has brought his way, whilst also taking some ‘satisfaction’ in his Theology degree.

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Charley Law, 25 years 1 goal outdoor & 2 goal arenaCharley has played polo from a very early age and in the last 5 years he has been playing full time, splitting his time been Argentina and England. Other than playing, his great passion is training polo ponies and the retraining of racehorses.

Jamie Dundas, 23 years 2 goalsJamie started playing polo 8 years ago and has been a member of Cirencester Park Polo Club ever since. He has played at international level against Brazil and South Africa, and has won the National Schools tournament. Last year he won the

coveted Gerald Balding Cup with Halcyon. He is thoroughly looking forward to wearing the Oxford shirt again!

Leonora de Ferranti, 22 years 0 goals

Leonora has just completed her third year at Edinburgh University studying Geography and she has been playing polo since she was ten. She has recently returned from a trip to Thailand playing University Polo in Bangkok.

Tom Meacher, 20 years 0 goals Tom was introduced to polo at the age of 14, and subsequently has played in most age categories of junior polo. Now at Oxford, his Mathematics degree takes up most of his time, though he still enjoys escaping the work to play polo.

Rupert Langdon, XX years 2 goalsRupert started playing polo at Marlborough College and continued through university. He won the 12 goal Victor Ludorum League in 2006 and has played the Prince of Wales Trophy (as a reserve for the patron).

He now works as a chartered surveyor at DT Real Estate and plays polo at the weekends.

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Demonstrating the finest in English hospitality, guests to MINT Polo in the Park 2010 will enjoy an exquisite afternoon tea from luxury department store, Harrods

What would a day at the polo be, without a delicious English

afternoon tea? With this in mind, MINT Polo in the Park 2010 has teamed up with the most luxurious department store in the world, Harrods.

Between exhilarating polo matches, the delicate and tempting Harrods famous traditional Afternoon Tea will be served to VIP ticket holders at around 4pm each day.

A team of expert pastry chefs will prepare the delicious finger sandwiches and bake the cakes and pastries fresh in Harrods kitchens each morning

before the tea is delivered to the Hurlingham Club. Measure for measure, and taste for taste, this ensures that the traditional tea it is served just as it is at the historic Georgian Restaurant on the Fourth Floor at Harrods.

The traditional afternoon menu comprises freshly cut sandwiches, home baked raisin scones (smothered in fruit preserves and clotted cream, of course) and a selection of pastries and cakes – all served with a tea blend of your choice.

Harrods has been serving afternoon tea since 1895, and in The Georgian Restaurant since it opened in 1911.

The MINT Polo in the Park

Afternoon Tea Package

•TraditionalAfternoonTea •ComplimentaryglassofVeuveClicquot Champagne on arrival

•Individualpicnic-stylelunchwithselected wines (one bottle per two guests)

•Officialsouvenirprogramme

(one per two guests]

•Dedicatedhostessesinattendance

•Sharedfacilityinthecorporateenclosure and garden in Hurlingham Park

Friday 4th June, Saturday, 5 June and Sunday, 6 June 2010

afternoon tea will use the very best seasonal products from the Harrods Food Halls, including such delicacies as Harrods SmokedSalmon.

Today, Harrods is still world renowned for its grandeur and impeccable service, with visitors travelling far and wide just to come and try the famous afternoon tea in the elegant surrounds of The Georgian. Coupled with the prestige and excitement of a major sporting event like MINT Polo in the Park, guests to this summer’s event are sure to experience the very best in English hospitality, and be part of a new era of professional polo and sporting history.

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The world’s best polo players regularly spend time at established polo clubs, brushing up on their skills or being coached up to tournament standard. We’ve tracked down four of the best polo schools with world-class facilities and stunning surroundings...

Rege Ludwig at The Thai Polo & Equestrian Club: ThailandRege Ludwig has been playing polo and instructing for over 30 years. A world famous coach, his coaching of the Aspen team took them to the winner’s circle of the 1994 U.S Open Polo Championship, and since then Rege has coached many other high goal players. In fact, Rege is responsible for teaching over 3,000 polo students – in the United States, 35% have benefited from his expertise.

Rege’s Polo clinics offer a great introduction to polo as well as a refresher course for experienced players. The primary purpose of the clinics is to give the players the chance to learn and improve their skills and the opportunity to put these skills to use under game conditions. Players spend time developing an efficient and effective swing of the polo mallet alongside the ability to ride the polo horse, and strategy sessions and positions on the field are reinforced during coached sessions.

Based at the Thai Polo & Equestrian Club, Rege gives classes at this first class facility during the polo season. The club includes two full sized fields and practice field, numerous paddocks, and stabling for up to 200 horses.

For Rege Ludwig lesson information, email [email protected]

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La Mariposa Polo Farm, ArgentinaEstablished in 1986, La Mariposa Polo Farm specialises in the breeding and training of polo horses. Comprising of 50 hectares of farmland near 25 de Mayo in Buenos Aires province, the town is located 230km from the capital, in an area which has become one of the most important centres for polo in Argentina.

The associated polo school opened in 1991, and by 1993 was training over 60 polo players every month. The club (now a firm favourite with professional polo players) offers more specialised training programmes and polo clinics for smaller groups or individuals. These programmes include training on all aspects of the game, to ensure that all guests see immediate improvement in their performance on the polo field – choose from ‘polo weekends’ for a quick brush up, ‘polo clinics’ for fine-tuning skills and ‘polo months’ for intensive training.

Club facilities at La Mariposa include 120 horses trained for polo practice, a beautiful club house, swimming pool, traditional argentine cuisine, and childcare if required.For more information, visit www.lamariposapolo.com.ar

The El Metejón Polo Ranch: ArgentinaLocated in the vicinity of Vicente Casares, Buenos Aires, Argentina, on the Ezeiza Cañuelas Highway, the El Metejón Polo Ranch is a peaceful haven created and catered for by its owners and a fantastic management team, who make their guests feel completely at home.

The Club has 3 polo fields (designed and built by engineer Alejandro Battori) one of which is an all-weather field which enables guests to play only minutes after a rain shower. Other facilities include; a schooling arena, an all-weather polo field for stick-and-balling, an exercise track, 96 boxes, and 300 acres of open farmland. The club has been competing over the last four years in the three most important open tournaments in Argentina (Tortugas, Hurlingham and Palermo) and is well-established in an area that claims the ‘seal of polo’.For more information, visit www.elmetejonpolo.com.ar

Oaklands Country Manor, South AfricaA holiday and leisure destination in sunny South Africa, Oaklands Country Manor is a fantastic place to enjoy polo away from home. Guests can enjoy traditional hospitality and personal service from the moment they arrive at Oaklands, just a three hour drive from Johannesburg or Durban, and nestled against a ridge above Van Reenen’s Pass in Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa. Think fresh mountain air, natural beauty, exquisite food from the manor’s top chef, excellent accommodation and activities including polo, swimming, tennis, horse riding, walking, mountain-biking and fishing.

Oaklands offers first class polo facilities, packages and activities to all guests; no matter what your skill level or experience, the manor can offer expert tuition or a short introduction to polo for those who are thinking of starting to play. Oaklands run affordable polo packages that can be tailor-made to suit all requirements with well-schooled ponies provided by fully qualified polo professionals.

At Oaklands Country Manor, the dedicated team eagerly anticipate welcoming you and your fellow guests to a ‘home away from home’ with every creature comfort and some of the best polo in South Africa.For more information, visit www.oaklands.co.za

The Fortune Centre of Riding Therapy

The charity (Reg No: 1045352) works with children and young adults who have a range of learning difficulties and disabilities. Riding and equine care provide viable and successful alternatives for people whose needs cannot be met in a classroom or clinic. The FCRT is an Independent Specialist Provider (ISP) whose principal work involves the provision of the full-time residential Further Education Through Horse-mastership (FETH) Course, weekly Riding Therapy sessions and day-care opportunities.www.fortunecentre.org

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We are delighted to be supporting the Fortune Centre of Riding Therapy alongside our sponsorship of Team Moscow at the polo this

year, and particularly that members of the Centre could join us for the Discover Polo Day” said Howard Snell, Chairman of Otkritie, in the run up to the hotly anticipated MINT Polo in the Park 2010 event.

As part of their sponsorship of Team Moscow at the Mint Polo in the Park tournament in June, Otkritie Securities Limited has chosen the Fortune Centre of Riding Therapy as the charity of their choice to support throughout the tournament.

The Fortune Centre of Riding Therapy (FCRT) works with horses to provide education and effective therapy for young people with special needs and/or disabilities. “The charity does a phenomenal job providing therapy to students with special needs via their involvement with horses” said Howard. “This enables students to relate more successfully to others and to have greater and more appropriate control over their own lives.”

Members of the FCRT recently joined Howard Snell for a Discover Polo Day in the famous Hurlingham Park where they learnt the fundamentals of the game and played a mini-tournament of their own. Alan and Ana (pictured) were fantastic ambassadors for FCRT and by far the best riders on the pitch. “We are very pleased to be supporting FCRT. I hope that Ana and Alan enjoyed the day as much as we did” said Howard.

“I really enjoyed the polo, I thought it was fantastic. The organisation and preparation was brilliant and everyone was very nice and friendly” added Alan, another visitor from FCRT.

“I did very well and scored a goal. Near the end I went for a short gallop and Mrs Dixon-Clegg

Otkritie, the official sponsor of the Moscow team, is supporting the Fortune Centre of Riding Therapy for Polo in the Park tournament

Supports Alternative Riding TherapyTeAm Moscow

Otkritie Securities Limited (OSL)

OSL is the UK-based subsidiary of Otkritie Financial Corporation (OFC), one of the leading financial services providers in Russia. OFC has acted as a broker, asset manager, financial consultant and investment bank for its clients since 1995.

Otkritie is the only major Russian broker offering ‘plug and play’ Direct Market Access (DMA) to the Russian exchanges, from a London based, FSA regulated office. They provide a range of services from execution services and hedge funds, to asset managers and broker dealers. Accredited by most European exchanges where Russian instruments are traded, the company offers global market connectivity and order-routing from its offices in London, Moscow and Frankfurt.

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thought that I had done it before. We had a good day out and ate lots of food. I took lots of photos and put them on my memory stick. I look forward to seeing the magazine and would definitely like to try polo again.”

The outstanding and highly effective work of FCRT is achieved through the horses’ powerful capacity to motivate, their dynamic movement and the parallels that riding and equine care offer in teaching visitors transferrable life skills.

As a new relationship is forged between FCRT, Team Moscow and the MINT Polo in the Park tournament, this is the perfect opportunity to create more awareness regarding the remarkable improvements equine projects can create in the lives of those with special needs.

TIMELORD

Professor Christoph Behling, leading designer for watch giant Tag Heuer, is currently working on land and water transport for the London 2012 Olympics. But, as he tells Claire Adler, he is hooked on watches, and asking stupid questions remains the key to his burgeoning creativity

For a man there is no product more personal

than a watch. It is probably the most

complex design per square centimetre”

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In 1993, a pair of academics studying the ages of Nobel Prize winners noted that the

world’s highest achievers were startlingly young. In ‘Age and the Nobel Prize Revisited’, an academic paper published that year, researchers Paula Stephan and Sharon Levin argued that on average, after the age of 50, the likelihood of making world-class, award-winning discoveries dropped off a sharp statistical precipice. A striking number of Nobel Prize winners between 1901 and 1992 had been in their 20s.

At the cusp of two energetic worlds, 39-year-old Christoph Behling – a product designer by training, a Royal College of Art lecturer, and the man responsible for a slew of Tag Heuer award winners – is driven by these curious facts about Nobel Prize recipients. He is convinced that great discoveries are routinely made by people in the early years of their entry into a new area. He has long extolled the triumphs of naïveté.

“Asking engineers and watchmakers stupid questions has been one of my greatest keys to

success,” says Behling, whose entire Notting Hill design studio is made up of people, just like him, who knew nothing about the watch industry before they started working for Tag Heuer.

Behling, a product designer by training, has consulted for Dior, Fred, Lacoste, and Nokia. This spring he unveils a new mobile phone for Versace, and through his company SolarLab, he’s working on solar ferries to transport guests to the London Olympics in 2012, as well as the creation of the biggest solar ship ever made – a 250-passenger solar ferry for the Thames. Behling also somehow squeezes in teaching Masters level product design at the Royal College of Art.

And of course, Behling continues to deliver armfuls of award-winners for Tag Heuer, including the Grand Carrera Calibre 36RS Caliper Chronograph, the Carrera Calibre 360, the Diamond Fiction (my personal favourite), the Professional Golf Watch, the Aquaracer, the V4, and the Meridiist mobile phone. The brand’s newest piece celebrates Tag Heuer’s 150th anniversary with the revival of a 1970s classic, the Silverstone, named after the English racing track.

It all started for Behling when he designed an eyewear collection for Tag Heuer a decade ago. “With my understanding of Tag grew my dream to design watches. My early designs were terribly unrefined, but luckily Tag Heuer saw enough talent to patiently mentor me and explain the mysterious world of watch design to me. If it wasn’t for this, I would never have got where I am today. The big brands are very Swiss and typically watch designers are second generation

living in the same town. It’s great for consistency but bad for innovation and creativity”, he says.

“For a man there is no product more personal than a watch. It is probably the most complex design per square centimetre. You will struggle to find a designer who would not love to design a watch.”

At the very first discussions about Tag Heuer’s Monaco V4, the world’s first watch modelled on a car’s linear engine belt, Behling’s fresh thinking led him to identify that, while a Ferrari engine from 1960 looked radically different to one from 2000, the inside of a watch movement had remained pretty much the same over the course of four decades. “Watch engineering seemed to be clinging on to some sentimental past,” he says.

When asked to create a diamond watch, Behling looked at diamonds not for their opulence and beauty, but rather – being a designer at heart – for their functionality. Embracing a diamond’s ability to reflect light better than any other material in the world, he came up with Diamond Fiction, which sees digital LED lights behind a screen of pavé diamonds telling the time. “This kind of stuff comes from people who are intrigued by ideas, not so much suffocated by history,” says Behling.

Behling confesses his part-time work lecturing world-class potentials in product design at London’s Royal College of Art sometimes leaves him exasperated, even though he remains convinced London is home to the best schools in the world in the fields of fashion, product design and architecture. After teaching six tutorials, he admits he sometimes returns

home exhausted. “Within the product

development department of a large company, people expect to meet their deadlines and have defined questions answered. But in an art college, I can’t demand results. I can’t even demand that students show up. There is no real authority,” he says.

For today’s students, physical and virtual distinctions are fluid. Behling might ask for a new watch design, but he needs to be prepared to end up with a web or iPhone application, he says. When his

students started

a project for German electric goods manufacturer Braun, many expressed their disdain for the brand’s focus on marketing and commerciality, in contrast to its great designs from the 1970s. Some student designers refuse to work on projects altogether on the grounds of sustainability, saying they’d advise a company not to go ahead at all.

Yet despite his packed

schedule and multiple projects in solar design, Behling remains compelled and fascinated by watch design. It is, he says, the paradigm of green and nature-inspired design.

“Nature and its fascinating complexity, shapes, fluidity, the way in which there is no waste and only logic, mean it is the ultimate inspiration,” says Behling. Having designed solar powered boats for over a decade, Behling

believes watches are amazingly efficient sustainable machines. “They’re locally produced in villages; use a

minimum of resources, 99% of which can be recycled, such as steel, rubber and brass; they are small objects encapsulating a

high value – a huge advantage for transportation; automatic watches

use energy efficiently with an oscillating weight capturing

the weight of your hand; they

can be repaired and they won’t be thrown away.

Even if they’re completely trashed, the core materials can

be recycled,” he says. Clearly qualities most other industries can only sit back and envy.

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Havana humidor One of the world's most exclusive cigars, the Cohiba 'Behike' has arrived at The Lanesborough in London.

Only 4,000 cigar sticks have been produced, each one ceremoniously hand-rolled by Norma Fernandez, the renowned cigar maker at the El Laguito

factory in Havana, making the famous Cohiba 'Behike' the rarest cigar in the world.

The Cohiba 'Behike', made to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Cohiba and named after the tribal chief of Cuba's indigenous Taino tribe, will be sold in The Garden Room at The Lanesborough, the only outlet in the world selling these exclusive cigars by the stick.

£1,500 per stick www.lanesborough.com

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the new blackBlue blood is

The rumours have been around for years; Prince Charles will launch a clothing range. A perverse fantasy? Maybe not. Duchy Originals, Charles’ own brand, once planned to launch a range of sweaters, scarves and tweed suits. Josh Sims finds out more…

The notion of blue blood being the new black is not quite as ridiculous an idea as it may at first seem. After all, Prince William has been shot by Mario Testino,

in his time, has been spotted on the front row of Julien Macdonald catwalk shows and is said to have loved being made a prefect at Eton because it meant he could select his own waistcoats. Harry – woeful escapades with Nazi regalia aside –

has set a West London pace with his fondness for Oakleys and after-hours Harvey Nichols visits. Freddie Windsor has modelled for Burberry. Prince Andrew’s fondness for Brioni is well known. While male royal style may be the antithesis of contemporary fashion, its country conservatism has made it unexpectedly in tune with a recessionary mood that is seeing clothing expenditure lean towards classic investment pieces.

But the bedrock is with Prince Charles, a man reported to change up to five times a day when on engagements and recently voted one of GQ’s Best Dressed Men, a well-deserved accolade. Camilla may be more adventurous in her Valentino and Versace, but with his fondness for Daks and Holland & Holland, his preference for bespoke tailoring from Anderson & Sheppard and shirts from Turnbull & Asser – throw in his Aston Martin and Charles is more 007 than 001 in line to the throne. Other royal households may have their own clothes horses – Spain’s King Juan Carlos, most notably – but many err towards the glitzy nouveau

riche, rather than Windsor’s very old money. Indeed, Charles may be a touchstone for

the current neo-traditional menswear (think skinny cords, Barbour coats, tweed, brogues), but his influence runs deeper. Celebrity endorsement may be modern marketing’s lazy solution to giving brands pizzazz for undiscerning consumers, but with the 1155 system of royal warrants – a badge indicating royal custom of five years or more awarded to brands at the discretion of Charles, the Queen, Prince Philip and, until her death, the Queen Mother – Charles can raise the standing, if not the tourist revenues, of some British sartorial greats. Not to mention the likes of Xerox, Weetabix, Nescafé Gold Blend and Coors beers, each of which has also won a warrant.

Ede & Ravenscroft, another of Charles’ favoured shirt makers – and one of the élite seven companies to hold all four active warrants – claims that they are “a symbol of Britishness and especially impressive to our customers from Japan and the US”. “William should have one to give”, suggests Jeremy Hackett, the founder of Hackett, which surprisingly has yet to receive the royal nod. “It would add kudos and look good on the headed paper.”

Of course, the influence of royal style has at times been profound – and if the present crop of princes take after their ancestors, we may yet see a lasting impact on men’s style. George IV was a dandy. And Charles’ Uncle Eddy, briefly Edward VIII and mostly the Duke of Windsor, may have grown up wearing dresses, sailor suits and Balmoral tartan kilts – which would win no modern royal any favours outside of Soho – but became arguably the most influential man in twentieth century menswear. An experimenter, much to Court disapproval, he created the Windsor knot, popularised plus fours and tab collars and worried that the press perceived him only, as he put it, as a ‘glorified clothes-peg’.

Such was his particular attention to detail that he fell out with one brave Savile Row experimenter. One of his favourites, Frederick Scholte, was ‘the’ tailor of the early twentieth century who pioneered soft tailoring – cut on the bias so that a suit jacket fits more with a flavour of modern deconstructed than the bullet-proof standard of much of the Row. But he was very particular about his own standards, so when the Duke came to him to make a pair of Oxford Bags – hugely outsized trousers popular in the 1920s – Scholte declined the Duke’s custom. They came to an agreement by which Scholte would continue to make his jackets, while another tailor took up the trouser challenge. With dedication like that, small wonder

that the Duke still warrants awe among fashion followers. In the late 1990s the CEOs of Kiton and Brioni helped spend $773,000 at an auction of the Duke’s wardrobe.

It may be some time before Charles’ heirs manage to attain quite the same standing in well-dressed circles. It seems unlikely that demand for William’s middle-aged jeans

and fleeces, or Harry’s baseball cap, will attain such a heady sum.

Charles’ Uncle Eddy, briefly Edward VIII

and mostly the Duke of Windsor became

arguably the most influential man in twentieth century

menswear. He created the Windsor knot,

popularised plus fours and tab collars and

worried that the press perceived him only, as

he put it, as a ‘glorified clothes-peg’

ROYAL POLO STYLE

At last year’s Cartier Polo, Prince Charles looked more like a senior ‘James Bond’ than a middle-aged royal. Teaming a cream linen blazer with chinos, a pale blue shirt and striped tie he looked the quintessential, dapper English gentleman – but he also managed to include a sharp modern twist with his dark shades and white shoes – truly inspired polo style!

For the very best in polo fashion, check out Polistas, Ralph Lauren, Gant and Eden Park.

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The Ascent casing is heat-treated in a process known as precipitation hardening, producing microscopic changes in the aluminium, which can double the strength of the alloy. Further enhancing these properties, the parts are then anodised – a process that transforms the surface, creating a layer five times harder than the raw material.For more information visit www.vertu.com

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A fast and furious version of polo, MINT Polo in the Park offers access to world renowned players. And continuing on the theme of fast and furious the

official car sponsor of the event, Audi, couldn’t think of a better way to seal the deal than a spin around the City of London.

MINT Polo in the Park is the new Twenty20 style spectator-friendly format of the traditional game that took the nation by storm with 2009’s inaugural tournament. The new style was created to highlight the high-octane and exciting sport of polo and showcase it with world’s first fully-pro tournament. Fitting then that the official car sponsor offers the same high-octane performance.

David Horsley, Fnance Director for MINT, gets behind the wheel: “The R8 Spyder seems to enrapture everybody who sets eyes upon it and that’s not just the car nuts. As we effortlessly cruise around town, heads turn and nod in approval. It’s definitely the car to be seen in this summer.

“Most soft-top versions appear as after thoughts struggling to combine the form and function, but this design seems effortless. Almost as effortless as the 525bhp V10 engine that attracted envious glances as we dropped a couple of gears and floored the accelerator. If the style doesn’t get you the sound most definitely will.

“And it’s a car in which showing-off is as much fun for the spectators as for the show-off. If you want to be popular this summer social season, this is the car for you.” So, it’s perfect for making an entrance at one of the season’s main events, MINT Polo in the Park.

This year, each of the world-renowned eight teams, will lose a player, and with just three players per side the game will be even faster and more exhilarating as the World Polo Series turns polo from a lifestyle into a professional sport.

As the World Polo Series makes a triumphant return to Hurlingham Park, we take the title sponsor MINT for a spin in the most eagerly anticipated open top car of the year, to find out more about the tournament

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Ralph Lauren Ambassador Nacho Figueras comments: “MINT Polo in the Park has developed some terrifying rules, the game is so fast and now the match will be positively on fire. We will be using double the amount of ponies per game, riding each one at breakneck speeds for just three minutes.

With the removal of some rules and the introduction of many exciting and thrilling new ones (such as the placement of a D-ring, like in basketball), world class players will be encouraged to take the long-shot for more points. The ball will be a distinctive colour to ensure it is visible on the pitch, and team captains, coaches and referees will be wearing microphones and head-cams so spectators can see and hear exactly what is taking place on the field. The pitch will be smaller to guarantee everyone can follow exactly what is going on. This makes for much faster paced and more interactive play as Team London defends their title.

The event is a full weekend of entertainment, with central London’s first ever jousting competition, stunt riders from famous Hollywood blockbusters, military displays from the best of our Armed Forces and finally a number of ‘skills’ events from the polo players, including penalty shoot-outs and the longest-shot at goal.

MINT –TITLE SPONSORS

MINT is fast becoming the leading independent agency trading house of choice for clients wanting superior wholesale brokerage services and trading support in financial centres around the world. Established in London in 2004, MINT is built on a refreshingly different approach best described as ‘live and direct’. This approach continues to attract the best talent in the business and has earned MINT a reputation for providing dynamic solutions across an impressive client base that includes over 500 leading institutional clients. MINT’s support for Polo in the Park reflects World Polo’s new Twenty20 approach to creating a fresh and exciting proposition to attract a new group of players and spectators to the sport.

Enjoy the THRILL

Imagine the roar of the crowd as your horse turns into the straight; the jockey jostles into position and wills the horse to push through to the finish with its head in front.

And meet some of the stars of the turf at our exclusive vip event

If you’ve been fortunate enough to experience the thrill of horseracing and, better still, backed a winner then you’ll know the adrenaline rush it gives you. Well, imagine the thrill of knowing that you own the winning horse.

Racehorse ownership is no longer just reserved for the elite. Many partnerships and syndicates are available to help spread the costs but still enable you to enjoy the full involvement of owning a racehorse.

As an owner, there’s the fun of buying your horse, picking a name, choosing your colours, watching your horse train and the thrill of being in the paddock before and after a race, listening in as your trainer discusses tactics with your jockey.

Watching your horse run is exhilarating from the moment the stalls open. Win or lose, the experience is electrifying and as an owner, you’re in the thick of it.

EXCLUSIVE EVENT: 28 JULY, 2010

To give readers the chance to experience the thrill of horseracing and to offer a VIP experience on Wednesday, 28 July, 2010.

Held in one of Sandown Park’s finest hospitality suites, you’ll be close to the action and all the amenities; with truly spectacular views of the racing whether it’s on the plasma screens or from a private balcony.

For just £25, the usual price of entry only to the racecourse, you’ll be treated as a VIP with a champagne reception, canapés, and an evening of high-quality horseracing. Channel 4 Racing’s Emma Spencer will be your glamorous host and you’ll be in the company of owners, jockeys and trainers, with first-hand experience of racehorse ownership.

Sandown Park is the nearest racecourse to the centre of London and takes 25 minutes from Waterloo. So join us for an evening’s racing, some fantastic hospitality and find out more about racehorse ownership.

Places are strictly limited, so to guarantee your ticket to this exclusive event, go to: www.sandown.co.uk/cityoffer and type in the following code: SPCITY10. Offer closes at 4pm, Monday, 26 July, 2010

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Paradise for polo lovers

Whilst you are staying at the El Metejon Polo Resort, why not take a look at our unique real estate development set in gorgious surroundings, within a prestious area of argentina.

For more information on all that El Metejon offers, please call (+54911) 5 808 7072 or visit www.elmetejon.com.ar

El Metejon offers you a typical Argentine estancia atmosphere, as well as the highest standards in terms

of level of play and facilities.

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The Caribbean reveals its addictive secret by Clare Saunders

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An “Amanjunkie”, as they have been dubbed by the travel industry,

is a guest who develops an addiction to the international Aman Resorts from their very first visit; after a luxurious 3-night stay at Amanyara, I have wholeheartedly joined ranks amongst them.

Since Amanpuri was established on Phuket Island nearly twenty years ago, Aman Resorts have grown from strength to strength. Worldwide there are now 18 resorts, each totally unique but sharing a common ethos centred on beauty, tranquillity and relaxation. Flawlessly finished, the unique and unspoilt environments adopted by Aman Resorts are integrated with natural architecture to create an environmentally friendly yet stunningly stylish hideaway.

Amanyara itself was launched in 2006 and is located on a quiet strip of the western shore of Northwest Point of Providenciales; despite its view onto the Atlantic Ocean rather than the Caribbean Sea-fronts most resorts build on, the resort boasts half a mile of powdery white sands and baking hot sunshine. Guests can enjoy a range of water-based activities off the beach including snorkelling and scuba diving, or from within the resort, can soak up the sun from beside the 164ft black volcano stone infinity pool. The Atlantic coastline provides magnificent views from Amanyara and sipping a luscious papaya, banana and lime smoothie, I could look out onto the ocean at feel completely isolated from the world.

What makes Amanyara even more spectacular however, is the seclusion and service offered by the elegant three or four-bedroom villas in 1½ acre plots across this

national park resort. The epitome of unlimited indulgence, each set of glass and wooden shingled pavilions come complete with personal staff and chef who strive to accommodate every wish and need that could possibly cross your mind. 8,000sq ft of living space is divided into three or four indoor/outdoor master bedroom pavilions, a glass surround living room and dining room pavilion, a fully outfitted kitchen, an infinity edged swimming pool with hardwood decking surround and outdoor dining.

Whilst the general bar and pool facilities are available along with the local beaches, our tranquil pond-view villa was so serene and private we hardly wanted to leave it. Sunken, candlelit dining just outside our own room ensured the most romantic and secluded of evenings and we ate like kings as our personal chef cooked up a storm. Whether you want to go totally carb-free or plump for a sumptuous feast, even the most complex dietary requirements are met; the seafood and Indonesian cuisine was particularly good with fresh fruits and salads for breakfast and lunch. Reclining on giant soft floor cushions watching the sun set each evening, I couldn’t imagine a thing you could worry about here; it truly was Paradise Found.

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In 1997, Nikki Beach introduced the world to the ultimate beach club concept bringing dining, fashion, music and entertainment together. Over a decade later, Nikki Beach

continues to make its mark in the world’s hottest addresses and trend-setting locales, recently claiming the #1 spot in Travel Channel’s World’s Sexiest Beach Bars.

The Nikki Beach concept has transcended its international venues and grown into a global lifestyle company: a clothing line, Endless Summers by Nikki Beach, which will be launched at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival; Marketing and Public Relationsd; Global Sponsorships and Special Events; Nikki Beach Music; a VIP Membership card and concierge programme; Nikki Style Magazine; and a Hotel and Resorts division with 14 new locations to open starting in 2010.

In fact, success has been so phenomenal that in its first year, the new Turks & Caicos Resort placed #2 on the Travel Channel’s 21 Hottest Caribbean Escapes.

The Nikki Beach lifestyle can now be

The Nikki Beach PartyIn this year’s MINT Polo in the Park after-party, Hurlingham Park will welcome a stylish Mediterranean lounge from the legendary Nikki Beach, alongside signature sounds from St. Tropez resident DJs

experienced in 11 cities, in eight different countries with more locations to come in the near future: Miami Beach, Florida, USA; Hollywood, Florida, USA; St.Tropez, France; Cannes, France; St. Barth, French West Indies; Marbella, Spain; Cabo San Lucas, Mexico; Providenciales, York City, New York, USA; Marrakech, Morocco; Koh Samui, Thailand; Playa Blanca, Panama.

The Official Players PartyNo polo tournament is complete without a players’ after-party. In an unprecedented move, the team at the legendary Nikki Beach will be transforming the stunning lawns of Hurlingham Park into a relaxing Mediterranean lounge, complete with soft candlelight and chilled signature sounds created by a host of St. Tropez resident DJs.

This exclusive Private members club sits in 42 acres of magnificent lawns and from 6pm on Sunday evening, you can come and enjoy the warm summer breeze with music, dance and style.

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Following a scenic drive, the second leg of the safari takes place with Limpopo Valley Horse Safaris in the Tuli Block, Botswana. The next four days are spent exploring this area where elephant, lion and leopard are frequently seen. Accommodation is is comfortable tents with en suite fa-cilities. This safari is for experienced riders who love to pack as much as possible into a holiday: two countries, two operations, big five game viewing on horseback, comfortable accomodation and superb wildlife. If you love horses and the bush, and want to experience African wildlife at you love horses and the bush, and want to experience African wildlife at its best on horseback, this is the safari for you.

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Welcome to MINT Polo in the Park – a very special event

celebrating international polo in the heart of London. On behalf of the Dallaglio Foundation, we are honoured to be the official benefitting charity.

I set up the Dallaglio Foundation last year following my retirement from rugby and the devastating loss of my mother, Eileen. Despite her brave and dignified battle, she succumbed to cancer. Since her death, I was shocked to learn that more than 1 in 3 people will develop some form of cancer during their lifetime, so it’s a sad fact that cancer will touch all of us at some point in our lives.

The Dallaglio Foundation supports a number of good causes, including Cancer Research UK, and I’m delighted that all the funds raised from MINT Polo in the Park will help Cancer Research UK continue to expand their vital work towards the ultimate goal of beating cancer.

Every penny that the Dallaglio Foundation raises for Cancer Research UK specifically funds their Clinical Research Training Fellowships at Cancer Research

UK Centres. These ‘Fellows’ will ensure that scientific breakthroughs will quickly translate to new, state-of-the-art treatments, making a real difference to the lives of people living with cancer, both now, and in the future. Wouldn’t it be great to know that we have all made a difference?

I’m hoping today that we’ll be able to tempt some of you to part with your cash on our unique auction prizes. But there’s a chance for everyone to make a small contribution by buying tickets for our raffle and our fundraising game ‘Hooks & Bumps’ – our homage to the beautiful game of polo...

I would like to thank my good friends at MINT and World Polo for inviting the Dallaglio Foundation to be part of Polo in the Park. Have a wonderful lunch, and enjoy the polo!

With best wishes,

Lawrence Dallaglio OBE

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