Cambiaso also received the Cartier Best Playing Pony prize from HM The Queen. This was awarded to the 12-year-old chestnut mare Caraquenia, whom he had played in the third chukka and whom he referred to as his “fourth favourite horse”.
An earlier match, for the subsidiary Cartier Trophy saw Top Srivaddhanaprabha’s King Power Foxes beat George Hanbury’s Sommelier 10-6. Sommelier started off strongly on The Duke’s Ground, but the 20-goal partnership of Gonzalo and Facundo Pieres – and it must be said their impressive string of ponies – ensured King Power ran out the winners. The lack of umpires’ whistles ensured the game flowed – in fact the consensus was that there were no fouls at all in the fourth.
RH Polo: Ben Soleimani (0); Tommy Beresford (4); Rodrigo De Andrade (8); Adolfo Cambiaso (10). La Indiana: Michael Bickford (1); Nic Roldan (7); Agustin Merlos (8); Luke Tomlinson (6). King Power Foxes: Top Srivaddhanaprabha (1); James Fewster (1); Gonzalo Pieres (10); Facundo Pieres (10). Sommelier: George Hanbury (3); Alec White (4); Juan Gris Zavaleta (7); Fred Mannix Jnr (8).
Alec White versus Facundo Pieres
Caroline Winbery with Laurent Feniou
HM The Queen, Laurent Feniou and Jock Green-Armytage with the Cartier Queen’s Cup 2017 sub finalists