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Original programme arrives in Club Archive
A
recent addition to Guards Polo Club Archive is this wonderful programme from the first Royal Windsor Cup
Final in June 1955, held a few weeks before the Club’s first season drew to a close. The match was between Ratanada and Ham. Ratanada came out the winners with Rao Rajah Hanut Singh playing for them in the number 3 position. The final of The Smith’s Lawn Cup, now renamed The Mountbatten Trophy, was played for as the subsidiary match. Another new acquisition is a photograph which complements The Royal Windsor polo programme perfectly. It was taken during the 1955 Royal Ascot Week Polo Tournament and shows HM The Queen taking a salute from two sergeants from the Grenadier Guards. The Queen was on her way to the Household Brigade’s Marquee to watch a quarter-final match for The Royal Windsor Cup on 14 June 1955. The Archive is always looking for any material relating
to the early years of the Club’s history from the 1950s through to the 1980s. Any photographs, programmes, badges and other ephemera would be most welcome. Photocopies or scans would suffice if original material cannot be spared. Please contact Graham Dennis, Hon. Archivist for Guards Polo Club at
blacklocks.polo@ntlworld.com or call him on 01784 438025.
St Moritz back on track for 2013 T
he organisers of The Polo World Cup on Snow in St Moritz, Switzerland have confirmed that the 2013 event will go ahead on 24-27 January 2013. Jonathan Munro Ford, one of Guards Polo Club’s most successful patrons this season with his Black Eagles team, will be making his snow polo debut, patroning Team Sal Oppenheim. His fellow patrons will be Englishman Richard Davis, playing for Team Cartier, Michael Bickford (USA) for Team Ralph Lauren and Andreas Knapp Voith (Spain) for Team BMW.
Thanks to the reciprocal arrangement that Guards Polo Club has with St Moritz, members of Guards Polo Club can purchase tickets for this wonderful and breathtaking
high-goal polo on snow at St Moritz members’ rates. For more information please contact Penny Mulcahy at Guards Polo Club on 01784 434212 or email your interest to her at penny.
mulcahy@guardspoloclub.com. If you want to know more about The Polo
World Cup on Snow turn to our special St Moritz feature on page 22.
Discover the true taste of China at the Good Earth
T
he members of Guards Polo Club have, once again,
been invited by Chris Tan of The Good Earth Restaurant Group to dine at The Good Earth, 233 Brompton Road, SW3 3EP, London on Thursday 21 March 2013. Mr Tan will once again introduce his guests from Guards Polo Club to a series of this leading Chinese restaurant’s iconic dishes, served in a modern way. The meal will be accompanied by wine, beer or Chinese tea. This inaugural event was really successful this year and the events team at Guards Polo Club is delighted to be able to offer this opportunity again. It may even bring back some happy memories to those patrons and players who headed out to Beijing earlier this autumn for the Cartier International China Polo Challenge (see page 32). The evening costs just £45 per head, but places are limited. For more information please contact Penny Mulcahy at Guards Polo Club on 01784 434212 or email your interest to her at
penny.mulcahy@
guardspoloclub.com.
Exciting Club opportunity for members
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uards Polo Club is offering its members the chance to host a final during the 2013 season. Not only will you have the honour of watching a match named after you, but you can also present the prizes and look forward to featuring in the following year’s annual Yearbook. For further details on this exciting opportunity contact Gillian Richards on 01784 221092 or email events@
guardspoloclub.com.
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