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 26, 2017

Highlights from the first finalist La Dolfina

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Best Polo Argentino breed  in the finals of the Argentine Polo Open since 1993-2016 (from Horse lists CPA 2017)

In a close match, Ellerstina 15 La Alegria 14

in the final chukker La Alegria lost after giving battle to Ellerstina, saved by his gem Polito Pieres.

After a cool start La Alegria gain confidence to lead in the final chukkas but with a Hilario Ulloa injured during the match, cant close the match when they where in front. He practically disappeared in the worst moments for his team.

Lost in the final minutes do to an extraordinary Polito that appears when the things get difficult do to his abilities as a skillful young polo player and his understanding with his wonder horse ESCONDIDA EMPER (EMPEROR JONES  (DANZIG)  AND MISS SECRET BY NUMEROUS (MR PROSPECTOR), TB born in Argentina  Breeder Haras Firmamento.

With the same horse he manage to lead the team for the success  in the Hurlingham tournament against La Alegria,  after Facundo Pieres was injured and was replaced.

Again Polito leaded his team to win the semifinal game, and in a colorful information was a teammate and scorer for La Alegria years ago.

How to win over La Dolfina 2017 version

1. Maintain a constant level in the horses selection of all chukkers in a running pressure game.

2. Understand the game plan used by La Dolfina to use long shots to open field to used there curve speed

3. after many games Pablo Mac Donough is not having his best year through this advantage the next team can explode this weakness.

4. Juan Martin Nero is the most dangerous player of La Dolfina with better list of horses and in an incredible confidence year.

5 If you don't posses the way to block the long shots to goal after the reach the 60 yards mark,  you will face a difficult time do to this new face after they use the "open sector"  to start attacks trough the center field or the option to shoot to the goal.


The constant quality of there list is the key factor for there game that give them the possibilities to perform a running gamer against lesser quality horses.

Today is the semifinal to the Arg Polo Open the day when La Alegria will rise

as in the Hurlingham Open Tournament, won by Ellerstina, today is the challenge for the Canadian Argentine Team.

Today will be the day when after many years a third team reach the pinnacle of the world best polo championship at the "Palermo Cathedral".

Freddy Mannix Jr, (8Hcp)  family team, with the aid of Guillermo Caset Jr, (9), Hilario Ulloa (10) and Facundo Sola (8) could take away all ghosts to reach the next week Final.

The clue is the horses conditioning, and as shown they have the potential and the skills to win this afternoon (in 30 minutes form this letter).

From the 2017 list of horses Argentine Polo open

As every year the analysis of the list of horses used in the list for the Argentine Polo Open, concludes that the use of the new technology are here to stay.


Teams like La Dolfina shown in the list of its best player present for these open, 9 clones of the same Dolfina Cuartetera (Sportivo by Lode TB in Lambada PA), the best played and  ridden by far in the opinion of the player.

In the perspective, and in my opinion is they the cloning will will the improvement in the health of the game do to the understanding that theres an evolution theme to be also in mind.

The clone could be like a better starting point but depends on many external and human factors, to finally express what could they achieve.

The best clones in the internal information gathered from the teams,  are de 3, 6 and 9 that shows the same uncommon abilities of the original one.

Out of the clones new world, the teams best teams in this year are La Dolfina, Alegria and Ellerstina and in that order.

As the difficulties of the field one of Palermo, the teams need the power and speed of the TB to support the hardest level of the games.

Most of them will use its power and speed  as key for the success in the games, playing them in the most important moments in the game as they are mostly fitted to perform in the Palermo field that the Polo Argentina.

As in the last years there is no surprises in the TB stallions in this tournament, so in my opinion theres a lack of understanding today about what could be used to improve there list of   horses 

In my opinion for this year the best list of horses for the Arg Polo Open, is the Alegria  team, remembering that after the 8 goals handicap, will be your the horses you rise or select the ticket to a 10 goals Handicap.. .