I continue to hear complaints about the lack of leadership within the USPA. People are asking questions as to how much money is being raised by Properties and where it is going. Rumors get started because there is no dissemination of information to the general membership and there has significant growth in either membership or membership retention.
We [...]
You know the phrase “the future of polo is in our youth” was spoken by Louise Hitchcock to a room full of overprivileged young men who would never have to work a day in their lives. It has become the rallying cry behind every youth polo movement and no one has questioned that if once these [...]
As the story unfolds in the Sebastian Merlos three month suspension by the Argentine Polo Association, we find ourselves on familiar ground.
After being suspended for the first three matches of this year’s Tortugas Open for insulting umpire Daniel Boudou in the last match of last year’s Argentine Open, we find that this very talented player [...]
It’s never a good idea to threaten an official when playing in world class athletic competitions. That’s what the Argentine Polo Association felt when they suspended 9-goaler Sebastion Merlos for 3 months following an incident in the Hurlingham Open when he was expelled from a game after threatening an umpire.
There was a time when [...]
HURLINGHAM OPEN GETS UNDERWAY
The Huringham Open ,the second in Argentina’s Triple Crown of Polo, got underway Saturday, October 27 with some of the players and horses playing for the first time in nearly a month! Although rain delays are understandable, it is unfortunate that the general public doesn’t understand the workings of the equine community, [...]
As the teams are being finalized for the 2008 winter polo season in Palm Beach County, Florida, there is a noticable absence of American players, young or old.
Back in 1939 when the United States Polo Association decided to put a cap on the Open,it was with the intent of opening the field to younger, lesser [...]
