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Sunday 1 st April 2012 Presented by
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HH Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan - Founder of The United Arab Emirates in a photo by Sir Wilfred Thesiger
Welcome Note Welcome to the second British Polo Day Abu Dhabi, presented by ADCB. We are honoured to be invited to return to the Ghantoot Racing and Polo Club. It was founded in 1997 as a private, royal venue based on the vision of the late president, HH Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan and today is run under the patronage of his son, HH Sheikh Falah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan. It is one of the most prestigious polo clubs in the world and has played host to HRH Prince Charles among other dignataries. We are delighted to also be raising money for HRH Prince Charles’ Charities in an auction this evening and we hope you will give generously. Polo, of course, is by no means new to the Middle East. Polo began in Persia as early as the 5th century BC. The modern game as we know it was rediscovered in India in the 19th Century by the British Army and exported around the world. It is therefore fitting that the British Army Polo Team should return to the British Polo Day Abu Dhabi for their second polo tour in 2012. This year, the British Army team is pleased to host HRH Prince Rashid of Jordan who was at Sandhurst and served with the Light Dragoons before returning to Jordan where he is Captain of the Royal Jordanian Polo Team. As ever, we’re indebted to all the sponsors for making this event possible. In particular, ADCB, Harry’s of London, CAVA, Land Rover, InterContinental Park Lane and of course Gaucho, who have prepared a delicious dinner tonight. Gaucho is no stranger to polo and it is great to be bringing a flavour of Argentina with a British twist here in Abu Dhabi. We hope you have a great night The Committee of British Polo Day Abu Dhabi
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Timetable
1900 - Welcome drinks, the Ghantoot Polo Lawn 1930 - Ghantoot v British Army Polo Team 2030 - Prizegiving 2045 - Dinner 2130 - Charity Auction
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GHANTOOT RACING & POLO CLUB We heartily welcome you to this sport and cultural center the brainchild of our leader President His Highness, Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan. The Ghantoot Racing & Polo Club is yet another gift of His Highness’s visionary gifts to the nation. Since I was appointed as the Chairman of the Club in 1997, my intentions have been expressed to promote the UAE throughout the world via the sport of Polo. We seize this opportunity to extend our thanks and gratitude to all those who helped Ghantoot Racing & Polo Club to be what it is today, a venue alive with activity. We appreciate the efforts of all those who helped us to achieve this success during the season and we are also thankful for our sponsors for their kind and generous support. With this tremendous success behind us, let us now look forward for a brighter future for the game. HH Sheikh Falah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Chairman, Ghantoot Racing & Polo Club
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THE TEAMS AND PLAYERS
THE BRITISH ARMY
GHANTOOT POLO
HRH PRINCE RASHID OF JORDAN (0)
ABDULLAH BIN DESMAL
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MAJOR MATHEW EYRE- BROOK
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AHMED AL NEAIMI
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MAJOR RUPERT LEWIS
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Description of a Polo Game The object of the game is to move the polo ball down-field, hitting the ball through the goal posts for a score. Polo teams then change direction after each goal in order to compensate for field and wind conditions. A team is made up of four polo players. A polo match is usually played outdoors. A polo field is 300 yards long and 160 yards wide, the largest field in organized sport. A polo match lasts about one hour and is divided into timed periods called chukkers. Each chukker is seven minutes long. Play begins with a throw-in of the ball by the umpire at the opening of each chukker and after each goal. Players must change horses after each chukker due to the extreme demands placed on the polo pony. During half time, spectators go onto the field to participate in a tradition called "divot stomping" to help replace the divots created by the horse's hooves.
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Rules of Polo 1
The green player has the line, and at fair speed the white player would be crossing the line without sufficient safety margin, resulting in a penalty against white.
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When travelling in the same direction the white player may draw level with green and then force him across the line and take possession of the ball without committing a dangerous foul.
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Two players riding for a ball from opposite directions in the open must both give way to the left and take the ball on their right or offside.
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Even at a far lesser angle the white player would still be crossing the line if he continues in that direction, and committing a dangerous foul.
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The white player may move in parallel with the line and play a shot providing he can do so without interfering with the green’s mount or causing him to check back. If white would cross the line to the dotted position it would be a foul.
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When two players are approaching a ball in the open from different directions, the player (white), with the line of the ball on his offside, right hand side, has right of way.
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British Army Team As history has shown, Polo and the Army are intrinsically linked. The modern Army still actively promotes polo. The Army Polo Association (APOLOA) was founded in 1998 to co-ordinate and encourage polo in the Army, both at home and abroad. The APOLOA runs the Inter-Regimental which is the oldest Polo tournament in the World. This tournament focuses on the highest standard of military polo and looks to encourage all Regiments/ Services to enter. Spread over 3 weeks and 3 rounds, the final is played at Guards Polo Club on The Queen’s Ground on a Sunday in June. The Army Polo Association now keeps polo the game alive under the watchful eye of its Chairman, Colonel Simon Ledger who will also be our guest commentator for the day.
HRH Prince Rashid of Jordan
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Major Mathew Eyre- Brook 9/12L
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Major Rupert Lewis RHG/D
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Mr Gaston Devrient
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Although the ancient sport of polo began in Persia and China many centuries ago, the British reinvented the modern game in the nineteenth century. Sir Winston Churchill, one of the greatest proponents of the game, once famously said “a polo handicap is a passport to the world� and polo is still thriving everywhere it is played, from Argentina to New Zealand. British Polo Day carries on the tradition of the British playing polo against friends in a host of different countries around the world.
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Ghantoot polo Team Ghantoot Racing & Polo Club boasts the UAE’s only team with Royal backing. The team showcases the skills of developing Emirati players alongside accomplished Argentine professionals. When compared to many of the world’s leading polo teams which possess a long and rich history, Ghantoot is a very young team, yet that has not stopped them gaining international honours. They have travelled the world claiming victories at tournaments in St Moritz and Sotogrande among others. At home or abroad Ghantoot carry the pride of the people of the UAE.
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History of the Game Polo is perhaps the oldest game in the world – having been played over 2500 years ago and is truly international. The name polo is said to have been derived from the Tibetan word “pulu”, meaning ball.
Ancient Polo In 600 BC the first recorded game of polo took place between the Turkomans and Persians. The Turkomans won. Polo began as a training game for cavalry units, usually the king’s guard or other elite troops. To the warlike tribesmen, who played it with as many as 100 to a side, it was a miniature battle. Persian literature and art give us the richest accounts of polo in antiquity. Ferdowsi, the famed poet-historian, gives a number of accounts of royal polo tournaments in his 9th century epic, Shahnameh (the Epic of Kings). In the earliest account, Ferdowsi romanticizes an international match between Turanian force and the followers of Siyâvash, a legendary prince from the earliest centuries of the Empire. The game spread into North India. In fact Sultan Qutb-ud-din Aibak, the first Muslim Emperor of North India, actually died accidentally in 1210 playing polo.
From Persia, in medieval times polo spread to the Byzantines (who called it tzykanion), and after the Muslim conquests to the Ayyubid and Mameluke dynasties of Egypt and the Levant, whose elites favored it above all other sports. Notable sultans such as Saladin and Baybars were known to play it and encourage it in their court. Polo sticks were features on the Mameluke precursor to modern day playing cards. Polo was passed from Persia to other parts of Asia including the Indian subcontinent and China, where it was very popular during the Tang Dynasty and frequently depicted in paintings and statues. The Moguls were largely responsible for taking the game from Persia to the east and by the 16th century the Emperor Babur had established it in India. Polo was revived in Japan by the 8th Shogun, Tokugawa Yoshimune (1684-1751) and was played until early 20th century. It was the favourite sport of the last Shogun who surrendered power to the Emperor in 1868.
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Sir Winston Churchill Old Harrovian
The celebration of polo in Jodhpur
Modern Polo The modern game of polo, though formalized and popularized by the British, is derived from Manipur (now a state in India) when British tea planters discovered the game in Manipur (Munipoor) on the Burmese border with India and established the first polo club in the world at Silchar, west of Manipur in 1862 In 1869, Edward “Chicken” Hartopp, 10th Hussars, read an account of the game in The Field, while stationed at Aldershot, and, with brother officers, organised the first game known then as “hockey on horseback”- on a hastily-rolled Hounslow Heath against The 9th Lancers. The 1st Life Guards and the Royal Horse Guards were quick to follow suit on grounds at Hounslow and in Richmond Park; and then on a small ground near Earl’s Court known as Lillie Bridge. The first polo club in England was Monmouthshire, founded by Capt. Francis “Tip” Herbert, 7th
Lancers, at his brother’s seat, Clytha Park, near Abergavenny in 1872. In 1875, the first official match in Argentina took place on 3rd September, where the game had been taken by English and Irish engineers and ranchers.
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George bingham Polo and art have been intertwined as long as people have played the game, be it cave paintings, intricate sculptures or modern high definition photography. George Bingham, the renowned British sculptor brings some of his sculptures to the region. George tells his story: Wilfred Thesiger was one of the 20th Centuries greatest explorers and travel writers. This tall, lanky old Etonian, known in the Arab world as Mubarak bin London (the blessed one from London) spent most of his life roaming the most distant, desolate and inaccessible parts of the world. He crossed the Empty Quarter twice, frequently lived as a bedu, travelling with the hardiest and most daring of regional tribesmen. Thesiger’s travels frequently took him through the Emirate, through the southern oasis of Liwa and to Al Ain where he formed an enduring friendship with Sheikh Zayed, the future ruler of Abu Dhabi and the ‘father’ and first president of the UAE. In 1949 Thesiger stayed for a month with Sheikh Zayed, hunting with him on the nearby Jebel Hafeet, the highest mountain in Abu Dhabi. So when British Polo Day asked me to think of a subject for a trophy that encompassed both Britain and the UAE and celebrated the relationship of our two countries, the friendship of Wilfred Thesiger and Sheik Zayed immediately sprang to mind. Thesiger was a prolific photographer, and he bequeathed his entire collection of some 22,000 photographs to the Pitt Rivers museum in Oxford. Amongst those photographs there are many pictures of the hunting trip he went on with Sheik Zayed, and it is from these that I was inspired to make this trophy. I envisaged the Sheik seated on his camel ,a Saker Falcon perched on his arm, both looking at a quarry in the far distance. I had the idea, now for the research. I am principally a sculptor of horses and English wildlife so the anatomy of the camel was then somewhat unfamiliar to me. Outside of a zoo, where it is difficult to get close to the animals to study them well enough to sculpt, where was I going
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A Humanitarian Disaster Over the course of the 2010 monsoon season heavy rainfall, flash floods and river floods combined to create a moving body of water that resulted in the worst floods in Pakistan’s history. The devastation caused by the floods impacted upon the lives’ of over 20 million people. Essential infrastructure including roads, bridges, housing, schools, medical facilities, farm structures and markets have been destroyed, causing damage of approximately £25bn. The Pakistan Recovery Fund Concerned, with regard to the people of, and situation in Pakistan, His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales has initiated a recovery fund, which aims to help raise funds for those most severely affected by the forgotten floods in Pakistan. Placing strong emphasis on transparency, quality control and impact measurement, the Fund will select quality delivery partners, high impact projects and tightly managed and monitored programmes in order to ensure that donations are wisely and efficiently spent.By match funding our partner organisations, we aim to double the impact of every donation made, in the areas of homes, health, education and livelihoods. British Polo Day: 1st April 2012, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates British Polo Day are hosting a prestigious event at the Ghantoot Racing and Polo Club with proceeds going to the Pakistan Recovery Fund. Not only will this event attract significant support from those who are concerned with the humanitarian plight of the people affected, it will also be a fun filled evening with a range of polo matches and a VIP Dinner.
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BRITISH POLO DAY PERSONALITIES Simon Ledger The voice of British Polo Day Simon Ledger is a retired Lt Col in the British Cavalry regiment, The Light Dragoons. He joined the Army in 1975 and has served all over the world including Northern Ireland, UK, Germany, Norway, Cyprus, the Middle East and Kosovo. His last appointment was the Deputy Garrison Commander at Tidworth. Playing polo since 1976, he has run the Tidworth PC as well as the Cyprus Polo Association and the CSPA. He began commentating in 1987 (polo, eventing and race calling) and since 1994 has commentated for all the major polo tours at Tidworth PC, Guards PC, Sandhurst and all British Polo Days worldwide. Chairman of the Army Polo Association since 2003; he organises all Army Polo activity.
Patrick Gather British Polo Day Film Director Patrick graduated from London Metropolitan University’s BA Film Studies course with a first class degree and in late 2008 started working for Andrew MacDonald’s ‘DNA films’. Since then he directed and AD’ed a variety of shorts shot all over Europe, which have been screened in the festival circuit, including Cannes and Venice Film Festival 2010/11. His most recent directing credits include ‘The Fair Sex’ (s16mm) which was produced by Bafta winning producer Gary Holding and WW2 epic ‘Shelter’ (35mm), starring a number of popular British actors. Apart from TV work for ‘Media Trust’, the ‘Community Channel’ and the BBC, he has also produced and directed various commercials and promos and most significantly the British Polo Day films since 2011.
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Major Rupert Lewis Player - British Polo Day Rupert Lewis commissioned into The Household Cavalry in 1997. As a junior officer he held numerous Regimental posts and served on operations in Bosnia. In 2004 he spent a year in Sierra Leone working as an Advisor to the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces before returning home to serve with The Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment on ceremonial duties in London. Over the last 4 years he has served in both Iraq and Afghanistan, more recently in Afghanistan commanding D Squadron Household Cavalry Regiment. Rupert started playing polo through the Pony Club and counts the Guards Polo Club as his home club. Since joining the Army he has represented the Regimental, Army Polo and Combined Services teams. He has played across the world including America, Argentina, Dubai, India, Jordan, Kenya and Singapore.
Abdullah bin Desmal Player - Ghantoot Polo Team Abdullah bin Desmal is at the forefront of Emirati polo players. At 42 he has now been passionately involved in the sport for 13 years. A renowned businessman in the UAE’s capital city of Abu Dhabi, Abdullah was encouraged to start playing polo by Ghantoot Racing & Polo Club Chairman, Sheikh Falah bin Zayed al Nahyan. Since receiving that Royal endorsement to get started in the game he has never looked back. An integral part of the Ghantoot Racing & Polo Club team since 1999, Abdullah rode out against the British Army Polo Team at Sandhurst College in 1999 and has had the honour of playing against both Prince Harry and Prince Charles.
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