West Shore Polo Club Defeats Prestonwood Polo Club to Win the George C. Sherman trophy at the 2015 USPA Open National Interscholastic Polo Championship
When the billionaire William I. Koch spent $60 million to start the Oxbridge Academy in West Palm Beach, Fla., he vowed to teach children “how things get done in the real world.”
It was quite a day in Florida as AUDI/Mannix slugged it out with Orchard Hill some great plays in 1st with Audi playing great control and staying out of a speed duel and off to a 3 – 1 lead 2nd chukkar seen the speed of Pieres cousins
Lake Worth, FL March 16, 2015 – The United States Polo Association® (USPA) today announced that the United States defeated England 17-12 in Saturday night’s historic 22-Goal USPA Townsend International Challenge Cup at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California. The U.S. team included 10-goal player Tommy Biddle, who played on the United States’ Townsend Cup winning team in 2011 and is the highest-rated arena polo player in the world, seven-goal player Kris Kampsen and five-goal player Jared Sheldon.
In Sunday’s quarterfinal action in the 2015 USPA Piaget Gold Cup at the International Polo Club, Alegria (Julian Mannix, Hilario Ulloa, Mariano Aguerre and Sterling Giannico) knocked off Valiente 14-8 while Las Monjitas beat Lechuza Caracas 10-6. Wins by both Alegria and Las Monjitas boosted both teams into Wednesday’s semifinals where Las Monjitas will face Audi (Marc Ganzi, Rodrigo Andrade, Gonzalito Pieres and Fred Mannix) in a 2pm contest followed by a 4pm showdown between Alegria and Orchard Hill (Steve Van Andel, Ezequiel Ferrario, Polito Pieres and Facundo Pieres).
One could almost hear a lump in Revel attorney John Cunningham’s throat Friday while he asked, over the telephone, a federal judge to reconsider her just-announced decision that an $82 million sale of the failed resort couldn’t go forward as planned.
Talk about a “stable” relationship. Sources exclusively tell Page Six that Jessica Springsteen — the show-jumping champion daughter of Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa — is dating Argentina-born polo stud Nic Roldan, who was named one of Town & Country’s “Top 50 Bachelors” alongside Prince Harry, Leo DiCaprio and Pierre Casiraghi last year.
United States team that will face England in an arena polo match includes top collegiate polo players from UConn, Michigan State, Colorado State and Oregon State.
