close game for the final of the President’s Trophy Final resulted in a win for the competitive Mad Dogs team. They narrowly beat Jasmine and Alexie Calvert-Ansari’s White Crane 5-4 in early September. The winning patron, Alan Fall, received the impressive trophy from fellow Guards Polo Club Board Director Nigel Hadden- Paton. He had been hosting a networking lunch for friends and connections in the Clubhouse and so was the ideal person to
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present the impressive Inkerman London prizes to the winning team. This 10-goal tournament, the penultimate contest at this level in the Club’s packed calendar, had attracted seven teams. Two of those had earlier battled for the subsidiary final, which was won by another Club Board Director. This time it was Mo Sheikh who collected the winners’ prizes on behalf of his Bridge House of Twyford team. They defeated new Club patron Jonathan Hare’s Harum Scarum 7-4.
Mad Dogs: Alan Fall (0); Ralph Richardson (2); Tom Brodie (3); Will Emerson (5). White Crane: Jasmine Calvert-Ansari (0); Phil Seller (2); Andrew Blake Thomas (3); Matt Perry (5). Bridge House of Twyford: Mo Sheikh (0); Ned Hine (0); Nico Roberts (3); Jack Richardson (6). Harum Scarum: Jonathan Hare (0); Ed Banner Eve (2); Hamza Mawaz (3); Ryan Pemble (5).
