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.

Monday, November 26, 2012

2012 Argentine Polo Season Update

As in the last years, I'm coming back to give my opinions upon the game and the horses in this year Argentine Polo Open.

This tournament is the 119th of this wonderful championship to proclaim the best Polo Team in the World.

I'm will tell that in the first tournament Tortugas was won by Ellerstina over La Dolfina, played in the Field 2 of Palermo, due to the problems given by a heavy rain season, that not a minor issue to his playing year. Tortugas is the start of the regular argentine high handicap polo season, but is not played by the best horses of the most important team.


In Hurlingham the final was won by L Dolfina 18 to 11 over Ellerstina in a great match for the winners, but in similar disposition as told for Tortugas, in this tournament some great polo horse are presented to play few minutes for the reason due to the lack of dry days to train them properly. The winner won this tournament for the second year in a row.
The MVP was Pablo Mac Donough, that is playing his best polo this year.
Second Chukker result La Dolfina 5 Ellerstina 1 and the Seventh 16 to 9 give a quick picture of the game.


So back to the real and most important polo championship of the world, the teams for this year present some changes from the years before, given a more difficult polo level, do to the restructure of the the Argentine Open where the Classification Tournament is more difficult year by year for  the teams willing to play the Argentine Open.

Zone A
La Dolfina Adolfo Cambiaso Davids Stirling Pablo Mc Donough Juan Martin Nero  HCP 40
Pilara Piaget Hilario Ulloa Francisco Bensadon Sebastian Merlos Francisco de Narvaez 35
Alegria Aguston Merlos Lucas Monteverde Juan Ignacio Merlos Frederick Mannix Jr 34
Magual Alejandro Muzzio Marcos Di Paola Facundo Sola Jaime Garcia Huidobro 30

Zone B
Ellertina CITI Facundo Pieres Gonzalo Pieres Jr Mariano Aguerre Nicolas Pieres 38
LA Aguada BMW Guillermo Caset Jr Javier Novillo Astrada Miguel N Astrada Ignacio NA 36
La Natividad Pablo Pieres Ignacio Heguy Rodrigo Ribeiro de Andrade Bartolome Castagnola 34
La Aguanda Las Monjitas Lucas James Cristion Laprida Jr Eduardo Novillo Astrada Alejandro Novillo 33

First games of the Argentine Open

Match La Dolfina 17 to Magual 9,   3rd chk 8/2,  Cambiasso Jr. 700th goal in the Argentine Open
MAtch Pilara Piaget 13 to Alegria 12 , 4th 5/9  Man of the match Sebastian Merlos

Match LA Aguada 12 La Natividad 10,  2nf chk 1/6 6th chk 9/10  under light rain
Match Ellerstina 12 to La Aguada Las Monjitas 10,  2nd chk 3/1 5th 8/6 7th 11/8