Summary of Youth Polo

National Tournament for Minors Thai Polo

On Sunday 1 May, The National Tournament for Minors Thai Polo came to an end on Field 2 of Palermo. This year saw 34 teams, comprising of 136 future stars compete across six categories: Juveniles (players born in 2006 and 2007), Seniors (players born in 2008 and 2009), Minors (players born in 2010 and 2011), Minis (players born in 2012 and 2013), Minis Minis (players born in 2014 and onwards) and Female (female players born in 200, 2006 and 2007). The winning teams were: Juveniles – Venado Tuerto: Beltrán Riglos, Antonio Goti, Segundo Restivo & Benjamín Feeney Female – La Irenita: Chiara Nalli Abad, Luisa Goti, Margarita Llorens & Lupita González Seniors – La Irenita: Salvador Bayugar, Juan Cruz Guiñazú, Tomás Bereterbide & Simón Stasi Minors – La Irenita: Fermín Mac Donough, Lucas Araya, Nicoleta Di Meo & Luis Padilla (H) Minis – La Cañada: Andino Donoso, Juan C. Nordheimer, Pedro Carmine & Bernardita A. Saravia Minis Minis – Three teams played a friendly tournament, made up of the following players: Lorenzo Etcheverz, Cayetano

Photograph by AAP Venado Tuerto, Juveniles winners of The National Tournament for Minors Martín, Marcos O´Reilly & Jerónimo Villamil (Justo Buchanan) (La Irenita); Héctor Fachini, Malek Tarillo, Salvador Regueiro & Ramón Aguirre Saravia (La Dolfina); Hilario Hernández, Francisco Páez de la Torre, Rory Donovan & Bautista Bello (Murus Sanctus)

2022 New Zealand Cup

On Wednesday 20 April at the AAP’s Alfredo Lalor Headquarters in Pilar, the fourth edition of The New Zealand Cup was played. Five teams from four schools competed, with New Zealand Pacific School retaining the trophy after defeating Los Robles Azule 8-0 in the Final and Los Robles Amarillo took the runners-up prize after emerging victorious from the Subsidiary Round Robin.

2022 New Zealand Cup Final Teams:

New Zealand Pacific School: Artemio Figueras, Lucio Toccalino, Pedro Chavanne & León Donoso Los Robles Azul: Olimpo Taberna, Fermín Mac Donough, Ramiro Avendaño & Gaspar Nigoul

Photograph by AAP New Zealand Pacific School, winners of the 2022 New Zealand Cup

2022 Copa Santa Paula

Photograph by AAP

New Zealand Black, winners of The Copa Santa Paula The 2022 Copa Santa Paula Final was played between New Zealand Black and Los Robles Azul on Friday 29 April at the AAP’s Alfredo Lalor Headquarters in Pilar. The Cup was donated by the Reynal brothers in 1951 to honour their mother, Paula Llauró de Reynal. 12 teams competed in this year’s tournament, grouped into four leagues, representing seven secondary schools. New Zealand Black defeated Los Robles Azul 1310 to take the top trophy, while St. Catherine’s Moorlands secured The Bronze Cup with a 13-4½ win against New Zealand Grey.

Millfield School Polo Day

Millfield School in Somerset will be hosting their polo day on Sunday 5 June as part of the Platinum Jubilee celebrations. The event is open to the whole Millfield community of parents, students, staff and invited VIP guests, with a series of polo matches, following an exhibition style format, featuring current students and Old Millfieldians.

St Andrews Charity Polo Tournament

Photograph by Ollie Grimes The St Andrews Charity Polo Tournament returned in April

Saturday 16 April saw the return of The St Andrews Charity Polo Tournament which raises money for Help for Heroes over the course of three days. 26 teams played across all divisions and welcomed back St Andrews alumni players. Durham and Edinburgh tied for first place in the Beginner Division with Nottingham winning the Novice Division. The Intermediate Division was won by Exeter and St Andrews Alumni won the Hayward and Stott match. The Alumni match was won by the Braeburn whisky team and the US were champions in the UK/ US match. For social pictures from the event, please turn to our Sidelines pages.

Jimmer Newman Memorial

Mayer Ranch (Ramon Caro, Jem Handler, Ava Rose Hinkson & Finn Secunda) defeated ChukkerTV (Ava Nunes, Harrison Reicher, Francisco Spinacci & Joaquin Vilgre de la Madrid) 6-4 to secure the 18th Jimmer Newman Memorial at Isla Carroll East, with Ava Rose Hinkson named Most Valuable Player and Francisco Spinacci’s third chukka pony was chosen as the Best Playing Pony.

Mayer Ranch, winners of the 18th Jimmer Newman Memorial

Photograph by Agustin Arellano/Jennifer Mcleavy

SUPA Girls School’s National Arena Tournament

Action from The SUPA Girls School’s National Arena Tournament

The SUPA Girls School’s National Arena Tournament took place this year at Ash Farm Polo Club on Sunday 15 May, Gill Glimmerveen, the Section Manager for Ladies Schools, reported from the event:

“A couple of last-minute hitches resulted in the chukka schedule being revamped twice, but the SUPA stewards took it all in their stride to ensure everyone had fun.

The Club was a beehive of activity with enthusiastic players and supporters filling the air with their excitement. Many of these players experiencing competitive polo for the first time.

St Mary’s Ascot had a very successful day, winning all their divisions with Heathfield School runners up.

Every player received fantastic prizes including hoodies, medals and Polo Times magazines.

Huge appreciation and thanks go to RJ Polo, Black Hound Sports and Polo Times for their continued support at all SUPA events.”

St Mary’s Ascot had a very successful day

All Aspects of Youth Polo Youth Junior Schools National Grass Championships

Photography by Melissa Bastin/www.poloimages.org

Action from Farleigh v Highfield

Smiles all round at the first Junior Schools National Grass Championships since 2019

On Sunday 8 May, the first Junior Schools National Grass Championships were held since May 2019 and Caroline Grayson reported on the event, “We were exceptionally lucky to be able to play on the new pitch at Oxford Polo and cannot thank David Ashby and Hector Worsley enough for allowing us to be the first competitive tournament to be played there.

The sun shone and 11 teams took to the pitch. Huge congratulations to all the children that took part – they all played exceptionally well. Our sponsors Black Hound Sports provided wonderful prizes and Oxford Polo awarded prizes for MVP (Holly) and the first goal (Charlie) to be scored in their inaugural polo tournament.

There is a misconception that you need to be at a school that plays polo as an activity, this is not the case, and we are here to help put teams together of children who would like to play with their peers, everyone is welcome and we are working hard with the Pony Club and HPA to bring more structure to all tournaments for the U21’s. If you would like more information about SUPA please visit our website https://www.supa.org.uk/ or contact caroline.grayson@supa.org.uk.”

Junior Schools National Grass Championships Results:

Intermediate

1st Highfield 2nd Farleigh

Novice

1st: Cothill 2nd: Sandroyd 3rd: Dragon

Beginners

1st: Bruern Abbey Churchill 2nd: Bruern Abbey Wellington 3rd: Cothill White 4th: Dragon Blue =5th: Winchester House School and Dragon Yellow