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chairman’s cup
T
he young team of Milly and Ned
Hine, Nico Roberts and Alex
Webb proved better than their
more experienced rivals in the final of the
Chairman’s Cup. Played as a fun, yet still a
fiercely competitive tournament amongst
the Club’s patrons, Northwood defeated
Alan Fall’s Mad Dogs 7½-3 in a great
match to conclude the season.
Northwood’s Ned Hine was named the
Polo Magazine’s Most Valuable Player,
while the Polo Times Best Playing Pony
prize went to Belle. This eight-year-old
English thoroughbred is owned by former
England international Andrew Hine (Milly
and Ned’s dad), but was played by Alex
Webb in the third chukka.
Twelve teams entered this year’s
Chairman’s Cup tournament, a hallmark
of which is that every team gets a game on
finals day. Henri de By, in his first season
as a Guards patron, along with his brother
Robert, finished this debut season with a
win by taking the Farewell Cup with his
Jacaranda team. They defeated Elio Leoni
Sceti’s Il Sole quartet 6-5. Honours in the
runners-up match went to Majid Sadjadi’s
Maxima, who defeated the Mathias’
Clarita team 3½-1.
The Directors’ Cup went to Dimitri
Chebotarev and John Gunn’s Ivan The
Terrible/Inspirit team. They narrowly
defeated Hilali Noordeen’s Sifani
squad 4-3. Another name that is more
familiar with the high-goal, Dubai, took
the honours in one of the runners-up
matches. Tariq Albwardy’s team defeated
David Lewis’s Los Lobos 6-4. The final
runners-up game went to Konstantin Graf
von Schweinitz’s Porto Ronco, who beat
Vivek Rawal’s Tashan Polo 5-3.
Northwood: Milly Hine (-1); Ned Hine
(-1); Nico Roberts (3); Alex Webb
(1). Mad Dogs: Alan Fall (0); Jeremy
Pemberton (0); Charles Cadogan (0); Mark
Emerson (2). Jacaranda: Henri de By (-1);
Hamza Mawaz (3); Santi Moyano Jnr (1);
Alejandro Penafiel (0). Il Sole: Elio Leoni-
Sceti (0); Tomas Palacios Bacque (3); Ivan
de Poligny (0); Marcos Vivian (-1).
Maxima: Majid Sadjadi (-2); Temur
Nadeem (2); Tunde Karim (0); Thilo
Sautter (0). Clarita: Clare Mathias (0);
Chris Mathias (0); Freddie Horne (3); Livi
Alderman (-1). Ivan The Terrible/Inspirit:
Dimitri Chebotarev (-1); John Gunn (0);
Simon Holland (0); Antony Fanshawe (3).
Sifani: Hilali Noordeen (0); Eric Appen
(0); Joe Arber (1); Nicolas San Roman (3).
Dubai: Tariq Albwardy (0); Pedro de
Lamare (2); Louisa Donovan (0); Anthony
Donovan (-1). Los Lobos: David Lewis
(-1); James Emlyn (1); Terence Lent
(2); Jamie Grayson (1). Porto Ronco:
Konstantin Graf von Schweinitz (0); Hugo
Taylor (1); Joaquin Bossignon (1); Edward
Horswell (1). Tashan Polo: Vivek Rawal
(-1); Charlie Holley (2); Stefan Sund (0);
Mark Hayden-Kellard (1).
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