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