There are 18 teams playing in the Queen’s Cup. It makes us wonder what we are doing in the US that is wrong? We need to look at their program because it costs about double to play in the high-goal tournaments in the UK and it’s not always good weather there. There is only one North American playing in teh UK, Fred Mannix from Canada. We do need to think about why this is happening as the sponsors do not all come from the UK. Maybe 1/2 of them do and that is more teams than we get in America’s best which had 8 this past season.
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This evening Guards Polo Club announced the draw for the 2009 Harcourt Developments Queen’s Cup. Eighteen teams have entered this leading high-goal tournament and each team will have at least three games. Although the current holders of The Queen’s Cup, Ellerston, are not defending their title this season, the stars of that squad – Facundo and Gonzalito Pieres – will be in action for Jean-Francois Decaux’s La Bamba De Areco team. They find themselves in League One, alongside Sumaya and two other teams which are sporting new names this season – the Hanburys’ El Remanso and Adrian Kirby’s Ravensbourne.
League Two has a new name to the team sheet this year – Rashid Al Habtoor’s Habtoor team. They will find themselves battling for honours against Les Lions II, Talandracas and Azzura. Joachim Gottschalk’s other team, Les Lions l, takes its place in League Three alongside George Milford Haven’s Broncos, Jerome Wirth’s Enigma and Nick Clarke’s Salkeld. This leaves six teams to compete in Group 1, featuring Apes Hill, Billingbear Park, Dubai, Lechuza Caracas, Loro Piana/Fise and Zacara.
Therefore, with so much talent on the field, this year’s Harcourt Developments Queen’s Cup appears to be the most open high-goal contest to be played at Guards Polo Club for many a year. The action starts on Tuesday 19 May with three games – Talandracas v Habtoor and Apes Hill v Billingbear Park at Guards Polo Club and Azzura v Les Lions II at Les Lions.
From day one the teams will be battling for a place in The Harcourt Development Queen’s Cup Final on The Queen’s Ground at Guards Polo Club on Sunday 14 June. On that date the winning team historically receives the silver trophy from Her Majesty The Queen.
Guards Polo Club was delighted earlier in the year to announce that Harcourt Developments had become the new sponsor of The Queen’s Cup. The award-winning property development, management and investment company has a broad portfolio of international projects, which include the impressive Park West in Dublin, Ireland’s largest business park; the five-star Wyndham Grand Hotel in Chelsea, London, the waterside regeneration project at the Esplanade Quarter in Jersey, and the Carlisle Bay Hotel, Antigua, Tatler Travel Guide’s Hotel of the Year.
The Harcourt Developments Queen’s Cup 2009
League One:
El Remanso: George Hanbury (1); Jaime Huidobro (8); Lolo Castagnola (9); Tom de Bruin (4).
La Bamba de Areco: Jean-Francois Decaux (0); Gonzalito Pieres (10); Facundo Pieres (10); Tomas Garbarini (1).
Ravensbourne: Adrian Kirby (1); Nicolas Pieres (6); Pite Merlos (9); Fred Mannix jnr (6).
Sumaya: Ahmed Aboughazale (1); Hilario Ulloa (7); Milo Fernandez Araujo (8); Ignus Du Plessis (6).
League Two:
Azzura: George Meyrick (4); Bautista Heguy (9); Marcos Heguy (9); Stefano Marsaglia (0).
Habtoor: Rashid Al Habtoor (0); Alejandro Muzzio (8); Piki Alberdi (8); Nacho Gonzalez (6).
Les Lions ll: Chris Mackenzie (2); Agustin Merlos (9); Sebastian Merlos (10); Max Gottschalk (1).
Talandracas: Edouard Carmignac (0); Guillermo Terrera (7); Alejandro Agote (7); Lucas Monteverde (8).
League Three:
Broncos: Max Routledge (3); Santiago Chavanne (8); Pablo MacDonough (10); George Milford Haven (1).
Les Lions l: Francisco Elizalde (4); Ignacio Heguy (9); Eduardo Heguy (9); Joachim Gottschalk (0).
Enigma: Jerome Wirth (1); James Beim (7); Matias MacDonough (8); Malcolm Borwick (6).
Salkeld: Jose Donoso (7); Marcos Di Paola (8); Rob Archibald (6); Nick Clarke (1).
Group 1:
Apes Hill: Charlie Hanbury (3), Mark Tomlinson (6), Juan Gris Zavaleta (6), Luke Tomlinson (7).
Billingbear Park: Roger Carlsson (0); Gaston Laulhe (7); Ruki Baillieu (7); Jean Paul Clarkin (8).
Dubai: Ali Albwardy (1); Christian Laprida (7); Adolfo Cambiaso (10); Martin Valent (4).
Lechuza Caracas: Victor Vargas (1); Guillermo Casset (8); Miguel Novillo Astrada (9); Juan Carlos Harriet (4).
Loro Piana/Fise: Alessandro Santucci (0); Alfio Marchini (3); Juan Martin Nero (10); David Stirling (9).
Zacara: Thomas Meyrick (1); Ignacio Toccalino (7); Eduardo Novillo Astrada (9); Santiago Laborde (5).