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As this June issue of Polo Times arrives on doormats, it is with immense admiration – not to mention a degree of awe – that we are all about to embark on celebrations and festivities to mark The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. 70 years in any role is simply staggering and it is hard to find words to describe the wonderment to salute and acknowledge that HM The Queen has been our country’s Head of State for seven decades – ‘nothing short of miraculous’, perhaps best sums things up.

Throughout this time, Her Majesty has, of course, been a staunch supporter of British polo – initially through her husband, HRH Prince Philip when he began playing polo in the 50s when the newly-weds were first based in Malta; then through her eldest HRH Prince Charles who followed his father’s love of the sport winning most major tournaments and finally watching her grandsons, Princes William and Harry, who not only continued the Windsor family’s competitive streak, but also its unstinting commitment to raise monies for charitable causes.

The latter is of course, what polo does so well and so very sadly, this issue includes the obituary of a dear family friend – Major Christopher Hanbury – it is telling of Christopher and of polo, that his two stand-out loves were: supporting charitable causes and watching his family play polo. Combine the two and Christopher was in his element! I first met Christopher almost 40-years-ago, and I can safely say, there are very few who can claim to have contributed so very much to polo in modern times. Christopher will be sorely missed and polo, whilst a better place for his support, all the sadder for his passing.

As you read this issue, I hope you will agree that it is great to witness polo – both on and off the field – being so enjoyed, free from the straight-jacket COVID restrictions of the last two years. However, do also spare a thought, for our European cousins who, three months on, are stoically defending our freedom. That the agressors must be vanquished is a certainty – at what cost, is the unknown.

Keep well and play safe. Nick Hine, Publisher

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British Polo Gin has launched a limited-edition gin to commemorate Her Majesty The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee

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Italy & Spain Qualify for FIP

In the absence of England, this year’s FIP World Championship opened up to new nations with the European Playoffs held at Polo Club du Domaine de Chantilly. The results saw Spain maintain an undefeated record and Italy only losing one match, seeing both teams qualifying for The FIP World Championship.

Spain had an undefeated playoff record

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Photograph by AAP Argentina defeated South Africa 10-5 in The Aon Inanda International Polo The South African Polo Association invited the Argentine polo team to compete in an International Test Match against a local side in The Aon Inanda International Polo at Inanda Polo Club. The visiting side achieved a clear 10-5 win against South Africa.

The Aon Inanda International Polo Teams:

Argentina (23): Ricardo Garrós (5), Manuel Sundblad (6), Alejo Aramburu (6) & Eduardo Zorrilla (6) Sudáfrica (23): David Evans (5), Guy Watson (5), Dirk Van Reenen (6) & Tom de Bruin (7) CAIH RUS 2022 Chapaleufú Epona secured their ninth Argentine Interior Championship with Handicap (CAIH) RUS trophy following their 11-8 win against Venado Tuerto, who were until that point the defending champions, on Saturday 7 May at Club de Campo Mza. Alberto Garzarón increased his lead as the maximum individual winner of the tournament by securing it for the fifth time (1989, 2005, 2012, 2016 & 2022).

CAIH RUS 2022 Teams:

Chapaleufú Epona (La Pampa) (16): Alberto Garzarón (3), Iván Lariguet (6), Santiago Goñi (4) & Gonzalo Guiñazú (3) Venado Tuerto (Santa Fe) (16): Simón Pioltino (2), Magín Burgos (2), Marcos Rooney (6) & Guillermo Cavanagh (6) Chapaleufú Epona, winners of CAIG RUS 2022

Coronation Cup 2022 The Hurlingham Polo Association (HPA) has announced the details of their Hurlingham Polo International Day for The Coronation Cup on Saturday 23 July at Guards Polo Club. The HPA has requested that clubs do not play polo on this day and instead support the event.

Gates will open at 10.30am with The Colts Cup Final (U17s) starting off the action at 11am, followed by The Stagshead Trophy Final (14s) at 12.15pm. Entertainment, including Pony Club polo and a military band will begin at 1.30pm, before The Coronation Cup between England and Uruguay at 3.30pm.

Seating is available in the Clubhouse Grandstand from £30 per ticket for HPA Members and there are also 13 HPA Club Mini Marquees on the far side for £600 which includes 20 admission tickets for the area. All tickets are available by emailing Guards Polo Club and more information can be found on the HPA’s website. Photograph by AAP

The Hurlingham Polo Association has announced that England will face Ireland in The Inspired Arena Test Country House and Match for The Bryan Morrison Trophy on Saturday 5 March at the All England Stables Are Moving! Polo Club at Hickstead. Captaining The Country House and Stables, run by Seb Dawnay, England will be Tom Morley (7) who will are moving to Tally Ho Farm! The gallery specialises be joined by Jack Hyde (6) and James in exhibiting leading equestrian artists, sculpture and Mann (4), while Ireland will be led by writers as well as its own unique collection of vintage Ryan Pemble (7) and supported by and modern polo collection. Keynote works include Niall Donnelly (5) and Max Hutchinson pieces of work from Alice Gipps, Charlie Mackesy, (5). The two sides last faced each Freddie Pask, Tony O’Connor and Guy Allen to name other at Hickstead in 2015, when a few! The new gallery will be opening on 1 March England secured an 18-13 victory. An 2022 and will be located in the red brick stable next HPA Colts game featuring six players to the main car park at Tally Ho farm, Crouch Lane, World Polo League Announce Team Line-Ups The 26 goal World Polo League (WPL) was founded by Marc and Melissa Ganzi to preserve the highest level of polo played in America. The WPL has its own set of simpler will kick off the day’s proceedings. Winkfield, Berkshire, SL4 4RZ (+44 7788798687 / @thecountryhouseandstables). Photograph by ©www.imagesofpolo.com rules and begins with The All-Star Challenge, followed by the inaugural Tommy Hitchcock The Coronation Cup will be played on Saturday 23 July Legacy Memorial, then The Founders Cup, Palm Beach Open, Triple Crown of Polo and Beach Polo World Cup Miami Beach. Eight teams will be competing in this year’s WPL: Alegria (26): Juancito Bollini (4), Clemente Zavaleta (7), Tincho Merlos (8) & Fred Mannix (7) Audi (26): Marc Ganzi (2), Camilo Castagnola (9), Barto Castagnola (9) & Paco de Narvaez (6) Catamount (26): Scott Devon (1), Polito Pieres (10), Toro Ruiz (7) & Nacho Novillo Astrada (8) Richard Mille (25): Santos Bollini (2), Grant Ganzi (3), Pablo MacDonough (10) & Juan Martin Nero (10) Netjets (24): Nacho Figueras (6), Tomacho Pieres (6), Pablo Spinacci (6) & Sugar Erskine (6) Seminole Casino Coconut Creek (26): Melissa Ganzi (0), Alejandro Novillo Astrada (8), Gonzalito Pieres (10) & Juan Martin Zubia (8) White Birch: Chris Brant (½), Mariano Aguerre (7), Santi Toccalino (8) & TBA Brookshire Polo Team (23): Scott Wood (0), Rufino Bensadon (8), Nic Roldan (8) & Pancho Bensadon (7) Photograph by WPL Pablo MacDonough & Juan Martin Nero will be competing in this year’s WPL

2022 BMW NZ Polo Open Plans are well underway for the 2022 BMW NZ Polo Open which will take place at Auckland Polo Club, Clevedon on Sunday 20 February, with their 2022 event marking their 45th anniversary. BMW NZ Polo Open, Executive Director, Lucy Ainsley New HPA Chief commented, “We’ve been working hard behind the scenes to ensure an exceptional Executive in Situ experience for guests and sponsors, the best of NZ polo matched with plenty The Hurlingham Polo Association of side-line action. After a long year of (HPA) has announced that Anna lockdown restrictions, this eclectic mix of Hall is now in situ and has sport, fashion and music is where everyone completed her handover period should be, enjoying summer to the fullest.” alongside David Woodd to Health & Safety of guests, sponsors and ensure a smooth handover in Photograph by HPA the HPA office in Little Coxwell. Her email address is anna.hall@hpa-polo.co.uk.

Jilly Emerson & Jeremy Barber with their HPA Lifetime

Achievement Awards

In 2019, Jilly Emerson and Jeremy Barber were given Lifetime Achievement Awards by the Hurlingham Polo Association but due to Covid-19 they had been unable to be presented with their awards. However, on

Sunday 21 November, the HPA put together a lunch for 40 guests in the Clubhouse at

Cowdray Park Polo Club and Jeremy and

Jilly were finally presented with their awards! Global Polo & ESPN

On Wednesday 1 December, it was announced that Global Polo Entertainment, the entertainment and media subsidiary of USPA Global Licensing Inc. has historic deal with ESPN and ESPNU is to reach more sports fans in signed an agreement with ESPN which will bring seven 2022 Finals the U.S. and attract new audiences by delivering more polo sport and to ESPN. These include: the 2022 GAUNTLET OF POLO, The U.S. lifestyle content in new ways” commented J. Michael Prince, President

Open Women’s Polo Championship and the 2022 FIP World Polo and CEO of USPA Global Licensing.

Championship on ESPN3 and ESPN2. “The goal of this symbiotic and everyone involved with BMW NZ Polo Open 2022 is paramount. The event will comply with all Covid-19 government regulations and requirements.

Photograph by BMW NZ Polo Open The 2022 BMW NZ Polo Open will be played on Sunday 20 February Sandpolo 2022 Entertainment Announced With over 6,000 guests attending each year, Sandpolo has become one of the biggest polo events in Britain and 2022 will see it enter its 15th year. Alongside the polo and the stunning backdrop of Sandbanks, there is of course the evening entertainment, which has been confirmed for 2022 as Boogie on the Beach on Friday 8 July followed by an Encore Beach Party on Saturday 9 July. Sandpolo will be returning in 2022 Photograph by Sandpolo

Rocksavage & Hipwood Merged into Pony Club Argentine Association of The Hipwood and Rocksavage, which have previously been Junior HPA tournaments, will now be merged into the Pony Club from this season onwards, while the Buckmaster section will be discontinued. and Pony Club; all Pony Club members less than 3 goals will play a flat rate of £50 for their HPA membership. Andrew Barlow, Chairman of the HPA Development and Coaching Committee, commented, “A vital Horse Breeders’ Best Playing Pony: Future Lituania, played by Carlos Marí a Ulloa financial support from Park Place this new The format of Hipwood and Rocksavage HPA role is to promote grassroots polo and partnership enables us to focus on our will remain unchanged, with three and four the development of young polo players. In structured development pathway whilst chukka matches on private grounds over combining the previous Junior HPA with wholeheartedly supporting and promoting 4 – 17 July, which will allow players to also Pony Club tournaments, this allows us Pony Club Polo”. For more information on compete in other Pony Club tournaments. to enhance our long-term objectives of Pony Club polo please contact Charles Hipwood and Rocksavage players will be promoting talent for the benefit of all players Whittington, or for Hipwood and Rocksavage required to be members of both the HPA and the sport in the future. With generous specifically contact Jilly Emerson.

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Best Playing Pony of the Final: Alberta Belvedere, played by Carlos Marí a Ulloa

Bellamar Pampa Norte comeback, but by the fi fth and sixth chukkas, it was Lavinia who were controlling the action with Carlos Revised US Rule BPP IceGuerilla Polo Challenge Marí a Ulloa and Manuel Gimé nez Villamil commanding the team from the back and Berlin 2022 combining well with their forwards, Ramon Cassino and Jack Whitman to secure Lavinia Gaston Lucero & their fi rst Thai Polo Cup title, 10½-4. Federico Martelli Photograph by IceGuerilla Polo Challenge

Active Team USPA member Timmy Dutta The inaugural IceGuerilla Polo Challenge Berlin took place at the end of April

In an effort to support American polo players, the High-Goal Committee and Rules Committee have revised the American Rule: 1. The new American Rule, which applies to all levels of polo, will take effect on 1 January 2023. 2. A team with a non-playing sponsor must have at least two players who are both Registered Player Members. 3. Unless a team already has two Registered Player Members, any non-injury substitute for a playing sponsor or designated sponsor must be a Registered Player Member. Spectators enjoyed the first ever Berlin beach polo event at the Grünau Lido over 29 April – 1 May for the inaugural event which saw BERLINMED/Wirtschaft + Markt beat DWB Holding GmbH in The Ladies Cup and Berformance.Group defeat IceGuerilla/Polar Twist/ Fair Play Award: Carlos Braun Carlos MVPWin Tickets to Sandpolo 2022 Bentley Service Krauthahn Berlin in the Men’s Cup. Marí a Ulloa

Santiago Llavallol & Carlos Marí a Ulloa Hublot Polo Gold Cup Gstaad

Polo Rider Cup 2022 Three additional teams have been confirmed for the Polo Rider Cup 2022: Araucaria Polo Club will comprise of Fabio Meier (1), Luca Meier (1), Fabian Bolanterio (4) & Adrian Laplacette (6); Polo Club Niederweiden will compete in The Polo Rider Cup for the first time, with four Grabosh brothers (Paul, Anton and Emil/Michl) competing alongside Santi Schweitzer; the Preußischer Polo & Country Club Berlin Brandenburg line-up will be: Kutlay Yaprak (0), Max Bosch (3), Valentin Novillo Astrada (6) & Moritz Gädeke (3). Team Preußischer Polo & Country Club Berlin Brandenburg

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Obituary Christopher Osgood Philip Hanbury

16 February 1944 – 10 May 2022

Christopher was born on 16th February 1944 in County Meath, Ireland, where he was brought up by his mother and was a regular on the Ballymacad hunting field.

Schooled at Wellesley House followed by Millfield (there he became great friends with Clare Tomlinson, a friendship that lasted all their lives) where he played county hockey and boxed for the school!

Cirencester Agricultural College was his next stop where his love of polo began.

In 1965 Christopher joined The Queen’s Royal Irish Hussars. During his time with the QRIH he was posted in 1974 to Brunei as ADC to His Majesty The Sultan of Brunei, this was a journey that lasted nearly 50 years – during his primitive years in the Far East His Majesty asked him to set up a Polo Club, which he duly did with the help of Jack Williams and their Argentine friends. Jerudong Park was formed and the rest is history.

Returning to the UK in 1983 Christopher threw himself in to Cirencester Park Polo Club, becoming the chairman in 1995.

He also created Longdole Polo Club with the help of Rob Cudmore where he encouraged and gave the opportunity to the young to start their polo careers. The Longdole and Lovelocks Polo teams won most of the Cirencester trophies, the ones he missed out on his sons Charlie and George picked up with him supporting on the side lines.

The Lovelocks and Longdole teams travelled the country picking up their trophies with an assortment of players including his now son-in-law Will Lucas.

During his Chairmanship, Christopher was instrumental in bringing the va-va-voom to Cirencester Park Polo Club by organising His Majesty The Sultan to play against and with His Royal Highness Prince Charles – during these games they raised millions for various charities.

In 2003 buying several fields outside Lobos and turning them into the most amazing Polo Farm, El Remanso was born – a wonderful home and polo holiday destination. The Lovelocks Polo Stud was born here too, and to this day mounts some of the world’s best players. Christopher’s happiest days in polo were spent watching his children and grandchildren play. Some of their successes include: every level of the Pony Club with children and grandchildren, The Warwickshire Cup, which George won three times (!), The Queen’s Cup, won by Charlie with Apes Hill, as well as the all-English El Remanso team winning The Gold Cup in 2018.

In 2005 he took over as Chairman of the Hurlingham Polo Association and his main focus for his four years was on improving and expanding the professional umpiring and on the development of young English players who were finding it increasingly difficult to get into a high goal team. During his chairmanship, lifetime achievement awards were introduced and tests were carried out on polo helmets, the first step towards the introduction of the rule governing their standard which was introduced 10 years later. He also organised an exhibition of polo art in St James’ Palace and took great pleasure in sending Christmas cards to some 500 members each year, many of which included much more than just his signature as it was particularly important to him that those who contributed to polo were recognised and thanked.

Christopher has always loved his racing and with Bridget has had many a winner between here and Ireland, hopefully his racing stud in Ireland, Triermore will continue to breed winners! Cheltenham Festival was his favourite, with many a winner and entertaining many a friend with his generosity!

Christopher leaves a huge hole in the equine world, whether it’s racing or polo.

He leaves behind his adored wife of 52 years, Bridget, six children: Zahra, Emma, Arabella, Jessica, Charlie and George, their other halves and his 21 grandchildren.

A true legend and a gentleman.

Photograph by ©www.imagesofpolo.com

Major Christopher Hanbury’s Memorial Service will be held on Friday 10 June at St Michael and All Angel’s Church, Lambourn. If you would like to attend, then please email (hanbury@lovelockshouse.com) so the family can have an idea of numbers.