Congratulations to Duke Buchan and his Longfield Farm squad for winning the first 12 goal in Saratoga on August 6. In fact…two of our teams made it to the finals in Saratoga’s first 12 goal. Longfield Farm beat the 2006 Eddie Moore Champions, Smithfield Farm in the Saratoga Finals.
Longfield was edged out of the current Saratoga 12 goal by an overtime goal to one of two John Goodman entries. Smithfield did not enter a team in this one. Polo Do, the entry from Matias Bullrich, did qualify for the semi-finals on wed. I was told that Polo Do played well in their first win, which included two great goals by Matias !!
Michael Levin hosted a couple of teams and supplied some great weather over at Ten Mile River Farm this past weekend. Club players Chris Brown, Bruce Colley,Felix, Woody Keesee, Jorge Pepa, Sam Ramirez, Bebe, and Andres all joined up with Michael and Maxi for some good old up and down polo!
THIS WEEK-August 18-20
1) John Klopp is having a fun invitational tournament at his farm. The intent is for everyone to have some fun after coming off some very competitive weeks of play. The design is three man teams with the focus on amateur participation. Each of you will have your pros, but some limitations will be placed on them to encourage greater participation by all. I will assist Julio and John in any way that I can help in organizing and officiating. I believe the games will be Sat. and Sun with some type of pool party after the sunday games. I will be back with details after I speak again with Julio. Please e-mail me if you want to play and have not confirmed already with Julio. Julio and I will meet tomorrow to build teams and organize the schedule. I know Matias and Michel are in Saratoga and if they win wed…they will be in finals at saratoga this weekend.
2) Practice chukkers on wed…call me for chukkers (619) 993-5553 or e-mail me
3) Coaching Chukkers will resume saturday at 3pm..so please confirm if you can attend this week.
NEXT TWO WEEKS-August 25-Sept 4th (Labor Day)
1) USPA Officer’s Cup 8 goal..Fri & Sun play
2) Saturday Club Match and Coaching Chukkers
3) Sun club chukkers
September 8-24 3 weeks of weekend tournaments
We had scheduled for 10 goal…but we may want to consider whatever level that will best include everyone without the uspa restrictions(ie let michel and guilli play if it is 8 goal or let minus ones play if it winds up 8-10, So we should start thinking what level and how do we get everyone who wants to play in. Duke and I were promoting it to the Saratoga group. We may get a twosome with Will and Cuko (6 goals).