Club de Polo Ampurdan (CPA):
In 1987 a new polo club was built in Figueres (Spain), as a result of the passion for polo and horses a family and close friends shared. It was the Club de Polo Ampurdan and the founders were Wolfgang Reber and Darío Campos.
The club’s region, the Empordà, is known for its beautiful landscapes – who inspired great artists like Salvador Dalí. Its sea side, known as the Costa Brava for its abrupt coast line and sandy-rocky beaches, is also well-known.
In 2011 the facilities of the Club de Polo Ampurdan have been renewed and so far it has become a center for horse and polo lovers, with its reglamentary polo field, wooden horse hitting cage, arena track, 40 stables, 18 paddocks and numerous supervised fields for long and short term horse boarding.
The polo team of the Club de Polo Ampurdan often travels to participate in tournaments abroad, and visits other clubs around Europe (Germany, France, England, Ireland) and countries around the world (India, USA, Argentina), and usually welcomes players who come with their horses to participate in tournaments during the polo season, from March to November. Many of them take advantage of the mild climate at the Empordà to let their horses in rest during the winter time.
V Polo Challenge CPA – Memorial W. Reber, 7th, 8th , 14th and 15th September 2013:
The club’s most important tournament in its fifth edition has been honored by the sponsorship of the PARKHOTEL BEAU SITE ZERMATT.
Players around Europe have come to compete in this tournament from clubs in Spain (Barcelona, Viladrau, Sotogrande, …) and France. The competition level has been from 4 to 6 goals handicap.
The fast and sometimes breath taking development of the games was an inspiring fact for the spectators to follow this spectacle.
The participating teams were:
BEAU SITE: Darío Campos M. 0, José Luis Crespín 0, Luis Domecq 2, Ignacio Domecq U. 3
LES LIONS: Pierre Beylat 0, Tomás Medina 0, Alejandro Espada A. 1, Santiago Novillo Astrada 4
CLUB DE POLO AMPURDAN: Eva Campos 0, Darío Campos 1, Pablo Campos 1, Mario Gómez 4
CIRCA: Xavier Cunill 0, Alvaro Calzada 0, Carlos Xiol 1, Antonio Ayesa 3
From the first game, the team of BEAU SITE showed its supremacy over the other teams. Chukker by chukker, Beau Site’s Ignacio Domecq and his son Luis performed a high level polo competition, which was a delightful show for the spectators, who were following the exciting games and enjoying the services and products offered at the tournament’s village. Santiago Novillo Astrada and Mario Gómez, as well as Antonio Ayesa were the players managing their teams towards the well-wished success.
The nice weather accompanied the great development of the games.
After the all-against-all classification games during Saturday 7th , Sunday 8th and Saturday 14th, the subsidiary game was to be played between teams CIRCA and CLUB DE POLO AMPURDAN, being the score 9 for CPA and 8 ½ for CIRCA .
The final was played afterwards between teams BEAU SITE and LES LIONS, being the result 9 for BEAU SITE to 5 for LES LIONS.
The charming of the Matterhorn, brought by our friends from Parkhotel Beau Site Zermatt, was accompanying all the tournament, together with the sun of Spain.
Let’s play polo!