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commonwealth game MALTA CELEBR ATES GAME AMONG FRIENDS O ur President, HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, learned to play polo in the Mediterranean island of Malta when stationed there with the Royal Navy in the 1940s. So it was fitting that Guards Polo Club could welcome players from Malta Polo Club to Flemish Farm this summer to play in the rescheduled Commonwealth Heads of Government (CHOGM) exhibition match. This game had been originally scheduled to be played at Malta Polo Club, in front of HM The Queen and our President, as part of the CHOGM 2015 celebrations in November of that year. Unfortunately, bad weather forced the cancellation of t he game and so our CEO, Neil Hobday, invited Malta Polo Club President Karl Galea and his team to play at Guards Polo Club instead. And although this rescheduled game may have been a victory for the Hildon Guards team – who defeated the Malta 38 guards polo club official yearbook 2017