Polo & More 2014
SIBLING
RIVALRY!
Danny Atwell of team Range Rover leaving his brother
Marc Atwell and team Veuve Clicquot in his wake
Philip Tempro, patron of the winning Range Rover
team
Tournament Box
First Citizens Barbados Open; Apes
Hill Polo Club; 7-17 March 2013
Result: Range Rover beat Veuve
Clicquot, 4-3
Handicap: 8-goal
Number of teams: seven
Most valuable player: Danny Atwell
Best playing pony: Ricardito, owned
by Sir Charles Williams and played by
Richard Gooding
Final teams
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The ultimate victor, Danny Atwell on the ball
with Richard Gooding in pursuit
Brothers Marc and Danny Atwell came face-to-face
on opposing sides in the final, where the latter ultimately
secured victory for his Range Rover side
in the 2013 First Citizens Barbados Open
Georgie May reports from Barbados
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Range Rover (8): Jason O’Selmo -1;
Philip Tempro 2; Martin Juaregui 4;
Danny Atwell 3
ange Rover won the 2013 First
Citizens Barbados Open in March.
Veuve Clicquot (8): Damien Luke 0;
They defeated Veuve Clicquot, feaSir Charles Williams of team Bulova
Richard Gooding 2; Marc Atwell 2;
turing England-based player Michael Henshowing Bruce Bayley of team CGI
Michael Henderson 4
derson, 4-3 in the final held at Apes Hill
how it’s done
Polo Club.
For anyone who had watched the tournament’s opener two low-scoring games and unpredictable outcomes of the elimiweeks earlier, the final was a near-on replica. Despite the fi- nation matches.
Sir Charles Williams’ Bulova team and his son Teddy
nal not going into extra time, as the first game did with Philip
Williams’ ICBL team – who were in last year’s final, with
Tempro scoring the golden goal on that occasion, as the scores
were still tied in the dying minutes of the game. This time Teddy emerging victorious over his 80 year old polo playaround Range Rover needed to slot one more through the posts ing father – both failed to secure a place in the semi-finals,
to secure victory and on this occasion it was Danny Atwell, as did Gary Shepherd’s First Group – featuring Apes Hill resthe work horse of the team who scored that all-important goal. ident Pro Pablo Crespin, as well as Brits Oliver Browne and
With last year’s finalists out of the competition before the Tarquin Southwell. Shepherd, who regularly plays in the
semi-finals had even begun, this year’s Barbados Open turned medium-goal in the UK, now resides in Barbados during the
out to be one of the island’s most intriguing and hotly con- winter months and is one of Apes Hill’s resident patrons. This
tested tournaments of the season. The handicap was reduced meant only one Apes Hill-based team, Veuve Clicquot, were
to 8 goals – down from 10 goals in previous years – which represented in the semi-finals stage; an unlikely outcome – but
made the tournament hugely competitive; reflected in the perhaps a refreshing one for others involved.
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