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.
Tagged: PoloLife
How to Stretch and Warm Up for Polo
*Guest Blog Post* India, founder of Chukka Wellness shows us a quick warm-up routine (perfect for when you’re pushed for time). It is essential to warm up and cool down your ponies before a match, so why do so many of us forget to prepare our own bodies for the game? Just like the ponies, we need to warm up our joints and muscles for the high impact game and eliminate the risk of straining a muscle or damaging a...
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...
#PoloWifeLife with Mechi Venancio
On my latest trip around the world with my #CrewLife I had luck on my side and was in Dubai exactly on the day the McLaren Cup started at Al Habtoor Polo Resort and Club. Watching Zedan play against UAE was very exciting as there was a clash of titans between 10-goalers Pablo MacDonough and Pablo Pieres. On the sidelines, I managed to catch up with Mechi Venancio, Pablo MacDonough’s wife and their three adorable kids. We had a little chat...
#PoloLife with Fred Mannix
During my trip to the UK for the Jaeger LeCoultre Gold Cup Final, I managed to meet up with Canadian 8-goaler Frederick Mannix, who was in the UK playing for Sommelier Polo. They had a fantastic season making it to the semifinals where they competed against their “brothers”, El Remanso (Sommelier is George Hanbury’s team and El Remanso is his brother Charlie Hanbury’s team). On that slightly rainy Thursday morning, Philippa and I got in the Silver Bullet (my friend’s...
Chatting on the Polo Side Lines with Angie Pedreira
I had the pleasure of catching up with Angie Pedreira, Nico Pieres’s other half, and their adorable son Felix, on the polo sidelines and we had a good chat about the world of Angie. *For those of you who don’t know who Nico Pieres is (in case you have been living under a rock with no polo info whatsoever). He is the youngest of the Pieres clan, the 10 goal prodigies. Nico was recently raised to a 10 goal...
#PoloLife
Most of my #PoloLife posts so far include high-goal tournaments with glamourous parties where champagne is poured by the liters and divot-stomping is more of a picture-moment than an actual spectator “job”. Most matches I have watched the horses are brought out by the many grooms all tacked up and ready to play and they get taken away after to get cleaned and un-tacked somewhere else. These are the privileges of playing polo in Dubai or having a large operation....
