Out and about Gold Cup draw, Cowdray Park – 8 June


Tasty fixtures in store as 20 teams go for Gold


This year’s draw was eagerly anticipated after it was revealed in the Polo Times weekly email newsletter that there would be 20 sides vying to get their hands on the prestigious Veuve Clicquot Gold Cup this July. This is three teams more than in 2009 and six more than were expected just weeks before the closing date. Among last-minute entries were Nick Britten-Long’s Cirencester Park, Nigel Warr’s Combe, Ed/Philip Magor’s Panthers, Fabian Pictet’s Emerging and Hernesto Gutierrez’s La Dolfina Polo Ranch. Pros on these teams include Brits such as Tom Morley, Satnam Dhillon and Mark Tomlinson, and foreigners such as Hilario Ulloa.


More than 80 players and patrons gathered at Ambersham Pavilion for the draw on 8 June. Polo manager Chris Bethell separated the 20 into four leagues of five, with the winners and runners-up in the Queen’s Cup quarter-finals seeded. With each team playing four league games, there’s polo almost every day from 22 June to 8 July, quarter-finals on 10 and 11 July, semi-finals on Thursday 15 July and the final on 18 July. For teams and the schedule, visit the Tournaments section at www.polotimes.co.uk.


In association with Aprés Polo


Veuve Clicquot’s Melanie Boury with the Gold Cup and returning winner, Jean-François Decaux


England captain Luke Tomlinson and Charlie McCowen


Ciren Park’s Richard Britten-Long


Sam Hopkinson, Lauren Carter and fiance James Beim


Julian Hipwood


Above: Nigel and Katie Warr Left: Enigma’s Malcolm Borwick


Chris Bethell introduces the draw 86 July 2010 www.polotimes.co.uk


Above: Ruki Baillieu, Nacho Gonzalez and James McLeavy Left: Vanessa Perkins and Loro Piana manager Santi Ganly


Photographs by Clive Bennett


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