August 16, 2018

The Barrière  Deauville Polo Cup has its first two winners: the Ladies Polo Cup and the Silver Cup. Two gripping finals: superb horse-riding, magnificent horses and a beautiful sports show. And this festival of polo is far from over since as from tomorrow the Gold and the Bronze Cups will start playing

Ladies Polo Cup
During this “ladies final”, all eyes were on the young 30 year-old professional player, Lía Salvo, handicap 9 and no.1 world lady player in the latest World Polo Tour ranking. Salvo is not an unknown name in Deauville because in 1974, the father and coach of Lía, Hector Salvo, won the mythical Gold Cup with the Cabaneros alongside the h10 player Hector Merlos. But a polo match is not won by just one player and if Lía was able to lift the ladies’ trophy last Saturday, it is thanks to the team that she built around her over the matches, motivating and raising the level of her amateur teammates: Margaux Perruchot and Marguerite Percheron, very present on the field as well as the young Adèle Renauldon, decisive in defense which did not prevent her from opening the score. There were some moments of nervousness when, at 4-2 in the fourth chukka, the opposing players of the Charlo team obtained a penalty but the French no.1 player, Caroline Anier failed to transform it. The relief was even more palpable when Marguerite Percheron scored a fifth goal for Brok Café.
This victory is also that of an Argentinian horse breeding farm run by Jorge Musso, in General Levalle, in the province of Cordoba: eight of the sixteen horses of the winning team came from there and were all trained by Dario, the son of Jorge Musso, handicap 6, former winner of the Gold Cup and who will play as from this week in the Bronze Cup. Three of the four players were riding horses from this horse breeding farm. But the “blanket” for the best horse was awarded that day to a thoroughbred, a racehorse retrained in another discipline. A process encouraged and organized by the Association “Beyond the racetracks” whose president, Elizabeth Doumen, handed the blanket to Catharos, a 10-year-old chestnut by Limnos that Adèle Renauldon had bought from a….. horse-ball player. A double successful retraining.
 
Silver Cup
The spectators will take away from the 2018 Silver Cup final, this Sunday afternoon, the incredible performance of the young Argentinian player Rufino Bensadon, who will be 17 at the end of the year and who scored in particular an extraordinary golazo, at a crazy speed, right out in the front and with everyone else behind him On the pitch, he enjoyed the irreplaceable father-son complicity with Pancho, h8 today, but a former h9 and semi-finalist in the Argentinian Open: “Rufino will move up to 5 in September and I will move down to 7, we’ll soon meet” jokes the father who is doing everything possible so that his son reaches the 10 handicap that his talent deserves. However, playing against them were heavy hitters including the “Argentinian Open” duo: Fran Elizalde – Tito Guinazu, a combined handicap of 15 between them.
The difference in the final score was narrow, 7-6, but it was clearly the “young” Rufino who allowed his captain, André Fabre, to win the trophy for the fifth time, a record for the Silver Cup.
There is no rider without a great horse, but also, no great horse without a great rider! And so it is (almost obviously) an Argentine mare, the impressive gray Lucifeta, ridden by Rufino Bensadon, who won the blanket for the best horse in the final.
Progression In The Wings: 2/1 – 4/3 – 5/4 – 6/5 – 7/6
 
Gold Cup
André Fabre and In The Wings have an opportunity to win the French Triple Crown, a trilogy that ends with the Chantilly Open de France on September 16 next. Before that, his team will have to win the Gold Cup which starts on Wednesday. That is by no means a foregone conclusion.
An even more competitive event with six teams playing: Talandracas, but also the team led by the president of the Deauville Polo Club, Jean-Edouard Mazery, Barrière (with Tito Guinazu and the spectacular Tete Storni). The Deauville public will naturally focus on the 100% French team led by Nicolas Desjouis, Outsiders, with the brothers Clément and Mathieu Delfosse alongside Patrick Paillol.
The Bronze Cup, with a lower level, will be played at the same time. It also  promises to be a great competition with five teams playing, mixing great Argentinian pros such as Dario Musso or Diego Braun with the best French players like the handicap 5 Patrick Paillol or the young player in the French team who will participate in the next European Championship in September, in Italy, Louis Jarrige.
 
Polo every day: one or two matches from tomorrow until the finals on August 25 (Bronze Cup) and August 26 (Gold Cup), with free entry on weekdays, € 10 on weekends and €20 for each of the finals
 

 by Pascal Renauldon / R&B Presse

 

Tomorrow the E&V Berlin Maifeld Polo Cup – German Polo High Goal Championship 2018 starts. Who will be Germany’s best high-goal polo team in 2018? And which of the eight international teams will be able to take home the coveted championship trophy of the ENGEL&VÖLKERS Berlin Maifeld Polo Cup this year? 

Between 17 and 24 August, the championship will be held as part of the ENGEL&VÖLKERS Berlin Maifeld Polo Cup. After the qualifying rounds at the Preussischen Polo & Country Club Berlin-Brandenburg at the equestrian centre in Phöben, the organisers are again expecting several thousand spectators on the final weekend at Berlin’s Maifeld.

Since 2010, the ENGEL&VÖLKERS Berlin Maifeld Polo Cup has become one of the most popular polo events in Europe. Here, on the May field in front of the Berlin Olympic Stadium, Polo was an Olympic discipline for the last time in 1936. Exactly 80 years later, the Prussian Polo & Country Club Berlin-Brandenburg hosted the European Polo Championship 2016 with overwhelming success. Since then, the traditional Mayfield has become even better known in the international polo scene.

Sylvia Gädeke, President of the Preussischen Polo & Country Club Berlin-Brandenburg (PPCCBB): “After the great success of the 2016 European Championship, the Polo World Association (FIP) was so enthusiastic that they asked us to hold the next World Championship here. We could not have received a greater compliment. We are now looking forward to eight extremely good teams and international players at the German Championships and thus to very exciting polo matches.”

Numerous celebrities from politics, business, sport and culture also take part in the annual Maifeld Polo Cup – the final will once again be a Berlin society highlight in 2018. Several thousand VIP guests are then served and catered for excellently at the highest level; every year the internal logistics grows in parallel with the number of guests.

In 2018, many well-known polo professionals will be competing on the Maifeld. The Argentinian Gastón Maíquez, who has won the tournament four times so far, is record holder. With Dr. Piero Dillier, the European delegate of the World Federation, a Swiss team will also take part. The Hamburg family team Barralina, which had already been successful on the Maifeld in previous years, comes to Berlin with its horses from Mallorca. A team from the capital of the Preussischen Polo & Country Club Berlin-Brandenburg with Berliners Nico Wollenberg and Moritz Gädeke will also be present. But the Berlin audience can also look forward to new dialogue faces and young talents. A big sports line-up, which promises exciting matches in the preliminary round games in Phöben and on the Maifeld.

Admission to the public area is free on the final weekend. Adrenalin sports, excellent catering and a colourful programme for the little guests make the ENGEL&VÖLKERS Berlin Maifeld Polo Cup 2018 the perfect excursion destination for the whole family.

E&V Berlin Maifeld Polo Cup German Polo High Goal Championship 2018
FINALS AUGUST 25 & 26, 2018 on the Maifeld in the Olympiapark Berlin
QUALIFICATION MATCHES AUGUST 17TH – 19TH & 24TH 2018 on the polo courts of the Preussischen Polo & Country Club Berlin – Brandenburg e.V.

Teams and Schedule: www.maifeldpolocup.de

 

Morgen beginnt der E&V Berlin Maifeld Polo Cup – Deutsche Polo High Goal Meisterschaft 2018. Wer wird 2018 das beste High-Goal Poloteam Deutschlands? Und welche der acht internationalen Mannschaften wird die begehrte Meisterschaftstrophäe des ENGEL&VÖLKERS Berlin Maifeld Polo Cup in diesem Jahr mit nach Hause nehmen können? 

Zwischen dem 17. und 24. August wird die Meisterschaft im Rahmen des ENGEL&VÖLKERS Berlin Maifeld Polo Cup ausgetragen. Nach den Qualifikationsrunden im Preussischen Polo & Country Club Berlin-Brandenburg auf der Reitanlage in Phöben, erwarten die Veranstalter wieder mehrere tausend Zuschauer am Finalwochenende auf dem Berliner Maifeld.

Seit 2010 hat sich der ENGEL&VÖLKERS Berlin Maifeld Polo Cup zu einem der beliebtesten Poloevents Europas entwickelt. Hier, auf dem Maifeld vor dem Berliner Olympiastadion, war Polo 1936 zum letzten Mal olympische Disziplin. Genau 80 Jahre später, hat der Preussische Polo & Country Club Berlin-Brandenburg an selber Stelle die Polo Europameisterschaft 2016 mit überwältigendem Erfolg durchgeführt. Seitdem ist das traditionsreiche Maifeld in der internationalen Poloszene noch bekannter geworden.

Sylvia Gädeke, Präsidentin des Preussischen Polo & Country Club Berlin-Brandenburg (PPCCBB): „Nach dem großen Erfolg der Europameisterschaft 2016 war der Polo-Weltverband (FIP) so begeistert, dass man mit der Bitte auf uns zukam, hier die nächste Weltmeisterschaft auszutragen. Ein größeres Kompliment hätte man uns nicht machen können. Wir freuen uns jetzt bei der Deutschen Meisterschaft auf acht extrem gute Teams und internationale Spieler und damit auf sehr spannende Polospiele.“

Auch zahlreiche Prominente aus Politik, Wirtschaft, Sport und Kultur sind alljährlich beim Maifeld Polo Cup dabei – das Finale wird auch 2018 wieder ein Berliner Society Highlight werden. Einige tausend VIP-Gäste werden dann auf höchstem Niveau exzellent verköstigt und bewirtet, jedes Jahr wächst die interne Logistik parallel zu den Gästezahlen.

2018 werden viele bekannte Poloprofis auf dem Maifeld an den Start gehen. So der Argentinier Gastón Maíquez, der das Turnier bisher vier Mal gewinnen konnte und damit Rekordhalter Ist. Mit Dr. Piero Dillier, dem Europa-Delegierten des Weltverbandes wird auch ein Schweizer Team an den Start gehen. Das Hamburger Familienteam Barralina, das schon in den Vorjahren auf dem Maifeld erfolgreich war, kommt mit seinen Pferden von Mallorca aus nach Berlin. Auch ein Team aus der Hauptstadt vom Preussischen Polo & Country Club Berlin-Brandenburg mit den Berlinern Nico Wollenberg und Moritz Gädeke ist mit dabei. Aber auch auf neue Pologesichter und junge Talente kann sich das Berliner Publikum freuen. Ein großes Sportaufgebot also, das spannende Matches in den Vorrundenspielen In Phöben und auf dem Maifeld verspricht.

Im öffentlichen Bereich ist der Eintritt am Finalwochenende frei. Adrenalinhaltiger Sport, ausgezeichnete  Catering-Anbieter und ein buntes Programm für die kleinen Gäste machen den ENGEL&VÖLKERS Berlin Maifeld Polo Cup 2018 zum perfekten Ausflugsziel für die ganze Familie.

E&V Berlin Maifeld Polo Cup – Deutsche Polo High Goal Meisterschaft 2018

FINALSPIELE 25. & 26. AUGUST 2018 auf dem Maifeld im Olympiapark Berlin
QUALIFIKATIONSSPIELE 17. -19. & 24. AUGUST 2018 auf den Poloplätzen des Preussischen Polo & Country Clubs Berlin – Brandenburg e.V.

Teams und Spielplan: www.maifeldpolocup.de

 

This is the first time in 30 years that a team from Hawaii is competing in a high goal tournament in North America. Christopher Dawson, Founder of Hawaii Polo Life is extremely proud to be representing Hawaii in Denver. “Having the opportunity to play on the private fields of Valiente, the largest horse operation on the planet, play on their horses and play alongside greats such as Adolfo Cambiaso and his 12-year son, is just amazing. His son is already playing like a champion, I mean how could he not, his father is a legend” says Chris. 

“The Colorado Open is a high goal tournament that takes place in Denver Colorado that includes some the top players in the world, including the number one player in the world, Adolfo Cambiaso.” Says Rob Jornayvaz Founder ofPolo Channel and the Polo Fest. This is a pivotal tournament for Hawaii Polo Life who will continue to compete in this annual event. 

The 2018 Colorado Open Polo Championship, offering $120,000 in prize money, opened Saturday, August 11. Four teams will compete in the 20-goal tournament. Games will be played at Valiente Polo Club, 6900 S. Platte Canyon Road, Littleton, Colorado 80210.

Final game is at Denver Polo Club in Sedalia.

Round 1:
Saturday, August 11, 10:30 a.m. – Colorado v. Scone (field 1)
Sunday, August 12, 10:30 a.m. – Hawaii Polo Life v. Valiente (field 2)
* For Sunday’s game only, Valiente subs are Guillermo Terrera (8) for Adolfo Cambiaso (10), and Roberto Zedda (2) for Poroto Cambiaso (2). Adolfo and Poroto will play the rest of the tournament.

Round 2:
Saturday, August 18, time TBA-Hawaii Polo Life vs. Colorado 
Sunday, August 19, time TBA-Valiente vs Scone

Round 3:
Wednesday, August 22, 10 am and noon – Teams play whichever team they haven’t played

Finals:
Friday, August 24 Subsidiary final, time TBA
Saturday, August 25, 6 pm – Colorado Open final (played at Denver Polo Club in Sedalia, Colorado), in conjunction with PoloFestDenver 2018, an all-day music festival. Tickets and information: polofest.com

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