Visiting the Oldest Polo Club in Europe
Treading on to the grounds of the Malta Polo Club gave me an immediate sense of awe, although the club doesn’t look too spectacular these days, it holds so much history that makes it a special place.
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A Morning of Polo in China
Wherever I go I always try to find a polo club, so on a recent trip to Tianjin, China, I reached out to my friend Rebecca who knows everyone in the Chinese polo scene and she connected me to John Fisher, the polo manager at the Goldin Metropolitan Polo Club in Tianjin. John kindly sent a car to pick me up at my hotel. Driving through the massive metropolis that is Tianjin was quite astonishing and then to roll up...
CPH Polo – How To Start A Polo Club and Community
Polo is fairly new in Denmark, with the Danish Polo Association established only in 2012 and the first polo club was established in 2015. In 2013 the first polo event was hosted in one of the parks in central Copenhagen, the Copenhagen Polo Open (which was actually the subject of my Master’s Thesis, but more on that another time), two years later the Scandinavian Beach Polo World Cup was hosted on the pristine beach of Hornbæk. Both events attracted a...
Chukkers at Jerez Club Polo Del Sol
On my quest to visit as many polo clubs as I can, my latest adventure took me to Jerez de la Frontera, a sleepy yet elegant and historic town in Southern Spain. Jerez is about an hour and a half drive North-West from Sotogrande, one of the melting pots of polo in Europe. The drive is beautiful, through a reserve with rolling hills of green and rivers on a smooth highway. When we, Kegan and I, arrived in Jerez the...
Puesto Viejo – Luxury Polo Holiday Cañuelas Argentina
Cañuelas, although a seemingly normal suburban and slightly rural area of Buenos Aires, it is very famous in the polo world, as this is where the top polo player Adolfo Cambiaso has his farm. Although a smaller polo Disneyland than Pilar, it does boast a few private polo clubs with tournaments and polo activities. One of the biggest polo clubs in the area is Puesto Viejo, with 6 polo fields, a large clubhouse, where events are often held and a...
