Four teams to feature in this year’s edition
Players and ponies are ready to take part in the final polo event of the Dubai season. Taking place at SkyDive Dubai, four teams are set to battle it out for this year’s title. Defending champions Team Vista Jet Bombadier return to the event under the captaincy of Rashid Albwardy, while his brother Tariq heads Team Cadillac (Middle East).
The inaugural Dubai Cup gets underway today at Dubai Polo and Equestrian Club.
The tournament will see five teams go head to head for the right to be crowned maiden winners of an event dreamed up by Mohammed Al Habtoor, founder of the Dubai Polo Gold Cup Series.
Polo, law and friendship: these are the main pillars of Lawyers Polo. The group, founded in 2008 provides a unique opportunity for international polo playing lawyers to convene, dine, swap stories, compete and most importantly, to bond. “The idea was to create a networking event for lawyers around polo; it worked out very well, so well that today the sportive and friendship spirit around Lawyers Polo has eclipsed its original networking objective” explains Eduardo Bérèterbide, founder of Lawyers Polo and attorney at Shearman & Sterling in Paris.
MANILA, Philippines - Team Philippines rammed in four goals in the second chukker and went on to fashion out a 13-9 victory over Dubai in the Belo Polo Cup 2015 Battle of the Titans before a big crowd yesterday in Makati.
As Sir Winston Churchill so famously said ‘A polo handicap is a passport to the world’, with polo now being played in so many parts of the globe, it would truly seem if you have a number from -1 to 10 after your name there are now a multitude of pitches worldwide, with some of the most spectacular of backdrops, just waiting for you to swing your stick across.
One of the oldest sports in the world is experiencing a resurgence in Australia and losing its elitist tag.
Polo has traditionally been a sport linked to the wealthy upper class, but it is quickly growing in popularity.
Saturday 21st March 2015 British Polo Day marked the start of the 2015 Global Series, presented by Land Rover, with the return of British Polo Day Abu Dhabi.
