Polo & More 2014
Polo & More 2014
Adolfo Cambiaso, Gonzalo Pieres Sr and Mariano Aguerre.
Meadow Brook was the first and only foreign team to win
the Open. In 1932 the team from North America, comprising
Michael Phipps, Winston Guest, Elmer Boeseke and William
Post, defeated Santa Paula – a team that had won the US Open
the previous year.
Polo runs in the blood of many Argentine families – the
Pieres, the Heguys, the Novillo Astradas, to name a few. The
Heguy foursome of Bautista, Gonzalo, Horacio and Marcos
were the first team of brothers to win the tournament in 1991.
This feat was matched in 2003 by the La Aguada team of Javier,
Eduardo, Miguel and Ignacio Novillo Astrada – that year they
also claimed the Argentine Triple Crown. The Triple Crown
ABOVE: La Espadaña in 1989 From left to right Ernesto Trotz,
brothers Gonzalo and Alfonso Pieres, and Carlos Gracida
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was created in the 1930s and is made up of the Tortugas,
Hurlingham and Argentine Opens. It has been won only eight
times by five teams: Coronel Suarez (1972, 1974, 1975, 1977),
Santa Ana (1973), Ellerstina (1994 and 2010), La Aguada
(2003) and most recently La Dolfina, who claimed it for
the first time this year. Team captain Adolfo Cambiaso last
won the Triple Crown in 1994 with Ellerstina, two years
before his La Dolfina empire was established – when at the
age of 21 he took his horses to Cañuelas and decided to set
up a club, which he named La Dolfina. Two of his teammates
this year have also won the Triple Crown previously:
Pablo MacDonough and Juan Martin Nero were victorious
in 2010 with Ellerstina n
BELOW: Ellerstina 1998, from left to right Lolo Castagnola,
Gonzalo PIeres,Mariano Aguerre, Adolfito Cambiaso
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