Visit Global Polo TV. Your email address will not be published. Schreibe einen Kommentar Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. Prior to the culminating moment of the Argentine Triple Crown, two very different teams have claimed. Continue Reading. The final of the Hurlingham Open, the second leg of the Argentine Triple Crown, between La Natividad and RS Murus Sanctus promised to be a challenging contest, being the first final in several years where neither Ellerstina nor La Dolfina were competing for the title.
Having seen the level of performance of both teams throughout the. After 13 years and 35 games, neither La Dolfina nor Ellerstina will be playing the final of the Hurlingham Open. The plethora of these companies again stems from the country's strong horse culture, says Bill Buchanan. These small firms do everything from provide the horses, to train the riders, and make the polo mallets, or sticks as they are also known. Polo was enthusiastically adopted by Argentines after the British began playing it in the country in the s, and its popularity has never waned.
To try to create the best horse for the sport, the native Argentine Criollo horses, known for their endurance, were crossed with English Thoroughbreds, for their speed and grace, to produce the Argentine polo pony. At the La Superba stud farm near the city of Lujan, 70km 43 miles west of the capital Buenos Aires, they have been breeding, taming and trading Argentine polo ponies for the past six years.
From that moment on it's trained to learn the game," says co-founder Fernando Monteverde. Just like in football there are precocious horses, and others are slow learners.
Mr Monteverde, 59, adds: "By the age of five a horse can play in competitions and be sold. To breed the horses, La Superba and other centres are increasingly using embryonic transplantation - when a prize mare is newly pregnant the embryo is quickly transferred to the womb of another female horse.
This ensures that the best mares can continue to play polo without being sidelined by pregnancy. Champion horses have also in recent years started to be cloned. But if you have just bought your first polo horse, then you also need a polo mallet.
Hector Zappala has been making handcrafted wooden mallets for 33 years at his small factory in Buenos Aires. The elite Argentine polo season is La Triple Corona, or triple crown, which runs from September until the end of the year.
For all three tournaments, it's possible to find affordable tickets, as well as luxury serviced boxes with the best views. Polo is known as a luxury sport for investors with big budgets, but, here in Argentina, it also has something else that breaks the stereotype: passion. The players don't take part in the local competitions for money, but for the love of the sport and the importance and tradition of these annual events, which bring them back to Argentina for four months every year.
Admiration for polo's great sportsmen and the skill and tradition of the game bring a host of celebrities to Buenos Aires every year for the Argentine Open. After the match itself comes the glamourous after-party with stands from the sports top brands providing snacks and cocktails.
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