Horses were introducted to this part of the world mainly by the Spaniards. The first ones came with the Conquerors and after that, and thanks to these great plains, the horse became the best friend to the man in the new world.
Through this mixture of civilizations the Argentine horses -named criollos- became the best transportation for the new Argentine thanks to its tireless endurance.
In the first quarter of the past century Argentine cattle barons purchased from England and France the best thoroughbred horses of that moment, champions from England like Diamond Jubelee and Cyllene among many others that placed Argentina as an important thoroughbred horse breeder country.
Many Argentine bred horses won important races around the globe, about which we´ll later inform in this blog .
Criollos, plus the best English Thoroughbred, became an explosive coctail to create the Argentine polo horses, but a patient and passionate love of Argentine horsemen for these horses gave the secret element for this worldly known success.
Darwin, Tesio and other talented connoisseurs came to this country and saw the vast Pampas and their people. Be a part of this incredible journey for horse lovers.

Coming soon

This blog will place you in the Argentine Pampas, one of the most extensive plains in the world where these horses are raised in the most natural way.

Argentina is a horse country, you will see in this page how these horses are bred for these sports.

Sunday, November 7, 2010

La Dolfina won over La Aguada Hurlingham 2010

In an incredible match La Dolfina won over La Aguada, when pratically the match was in the La Aguada Polo Team hands, when took a lead of seven goals, resting 1 1/2 chukkers to finish .

Due to an emergency formation of La Dolfina, that played with 2 new members, by the replacement of Monteverde in the team by Guillermo Caset and the illness of Castagniola replace by GuillermoTerrera.
But my surpise came by the list of horses used by the A Cambiasso Jr. , usually in the first two jewels of the argentine triple crown the players use this matchs in order to focus and to fit their horses for the Argentine Open main objective of the polo year for all Argentine Polo Players.

But as the score came to be so close Cambiasso Jr, when in the last seconds of the match it became equalize, in the last chukkers he played Borrachera (I like her!), Buenaventura and La Cuartetera, to define with his score in the extra chukker with La Cuartetera at full speed.

The list: Novia Celosa, True, Lufthanza Burma, Lapa, Falta Envido, Hanna Montana, Celina, Borrachera, Buenaventura La Cuartetera.