by Alex Webbe | Apr 14, 2016 | IPC International Polo Club Palm Beach FL, Palm Beach Report By Alex Webbe
It wasn’t the game the crowded sidelines of the Number 5 field at the International Polo Club expected with a pair of 2-0 teams facing off for a semifinal berth in the 2016 US Open Championship, but the Dubai team (Rashid Albwardy, Alejo Taranco, Facundo Sola and...
by Alex Webbe | Apr 11, 2016 | IPC International Polo Club Palm Beach FL, Palm Beach Report By Alex Webbe
After trailing for a good part of the game, Orchard Hill (Facundo Pieres, Julian de Lusarreta, Juan Martin Nero and Steve Van Andel) came back to tie the game in the fifth chukker and score the winning goals in the final chukker in their 11-9 win over a tough Lucchese...
by Alex Webbe | Apr 10, 2016 | IPC International Polo Club Palm Beach FL, Palm Beach Report By Alex Webbe
A powerful Dubai lineup (Rashid Albwardy, Alejo Taranco, Facundo Sola and Adolfo Cambiaso) proved to be ungracious guests as they beat Valiente (Bob Jornayvaz, Santi Torres, Alfredo Capella and Tomas Garcia del Rio) on their home turf Saturday afternoon, handing the...
by Alex Webbe | Apr 4, 2016 | Palm Beach Report By Alex Webbe
It’s been over sixty years since the University of Miami boasted major polo credentials. The initial program was developed under the sponsorship of 10-goaler Michael Phipps and his pro, George Oliver. Phipps honed his teeth on arena polo during his college days at...
by Alex Webbe | Apr 4, 2016 | Connecticut Polo Clubs, Palm Beach Report By Alex Webbe, USPA, Virginia Polo Clubs
The University of Miami didn’t carry the blueblood credentials of the Ivy League colleges that had dominated the intercollegiate polo ranks over the course of the first twenty years of competition, but when it took the field for the first time in 1948, it took it with...
