AHMIBAH GRABS TRIPLE CROWN

Having won both the Bronze and the Silver Cups at Sotogrande, Bahar Jefri’s team also took the Gold Cup home in one of the tournament’s most exciting matches against Ayala, last year’s Gold Cup winners, yesterday at Los Pinos.  In front of a milling crowd of several hundreds, Patron Prince Bahar, Valerio Zubiaurre, Iñaki Laprida and Pablo MacDonough worked together consistently as a team, though Pablito well deserved the Best Tournament Player award he received at the prize-giving ceremony afterwards. David ‘Pelón’ Stirling, excellently though he played with Santiago Laborde, Íñigo Zóbel and Gastón Urturi, was simply outplayed by their rivals. The final result was a really close 11 – 10 for Bahar’s men.  For a chukker-by-chukker look at the match and some more photos

GOLD CUP SEMI-FINALS

In the first of the semi-finals at Los Pinos, Las Monjitas,were no match for Ayala, who are defending their high-goal championship of last year, and who won by 10 goals to 5 in a match that was too unequal for a semi-final. Íñigo Zobel’s (2) team, with Gastón Urturi (5), David ‘Pelón’ Stirling (8) and Santiago Laborde (5) on board, were far superior. Pelón was the man of the match, scoring most of the goals, defending every rival’s attack and playing passing shots that would seem to deserve another point to his handicap. Las Monjitas, with patron Camilo Bautista (0) at their head and Eduardo Novillo (9), P. Sáinz de Vicuña (3) and A. Díaz Alberdi (8), tried hard to get past the excellent defensive wall put up by Zóbel’s men. It was an impossible task. To read about the second match and photos…

NEW POLO PHOTO SITE

Our friend and colleague Salvador Moreno has recently opened a new website, FotosMoreno, from which he offers his magnificent photos of polo and golf tournaments in the area and beyond. His site also contains pictures of the social events he covers throughout the year. Salva is a consumate journalist, having worked as photographer and editor for several publications, including La Revista de Sotogrande, La Bocha and Europa Sur. You can also see some of his work on JimenArte.