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Gauntlet of Polo
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Park Place
Park Place, winners of The C.V. Whitney Cup
Retain Title T
he Gauntlet of Polo sees some of the best players compete over three months for three prestigious titles, The C.V. Whitney Cup, The USPA Gold Cup and The U.S. Open Polo Championship. The C.V. Whitney Cup is the first of the three tournaments and was first played for in 1979 when it was originally known as The U.S. Handicap; the tournament was renamed in 1988 after C.V. (Cornelius Vanderbilt ‘Sonny’) Whitney, a keen polo player and three-time winner of the U.S. Open in 1928, 1937 and 1938, and son of 10-goal Hall of Famer Harry Payne Whitney. The C.V. Whitney was originally played at Retama Polo Center in San Antonio, Texas, but since 2003 it has been hosted at International Polo Club Palm
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Polo Times, March 2022
C.V. Whitney Cup
Beach (IPC) in Wellington, Florida. Last year saw Park Place push the Final into over-time against Scone, where they secured an 11-10 victory, and this year saw Park Place return to defend their title, battling their way through the qualifying rounds to face Scone once again. Going into the Final, Scone were undefeated, but Park Place’s 10 goaler, Hilario Ulloa, with three C.V. Whitney Cup wins under his belt (2010, 2013 and 2021) was on hand to lead Park Place to a win. Facing the father-son duo of Adolfo and Poroto Cambiaso, with Adolfo himself holding a record breaking seven C.V. Whitney Cup titles (1991, 1995, 1996, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2018), so the Final promised to be an exhilarating clash.
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