Mon 27th Jun 2016Going for Gold Days 4 & 5 Wins for Clarke & Green, Apes Hill, HB Polo and Cowdray Vikings
A weekend of action at Cowdray Park Polo Club saw four matches take place as eight teams battled the weather and each other for the Jaeger-LeCoultre Gold Cup for the British Open. On Saturday 25 June the first match took place between Clarke & Green and Ben Soleimani's RH Polo. An exciting match went to an extra chukka as neither team could quite press home an advantage big enough to pull away. Luke Tomlinson's on point attacking was matched by a fired-up Rodrigo de Andrade and regulation time ended with 7 goals apiece. The overtime chukka was brief, with Zavaleta breaking free and scoring the winning goal for Clarke & Green for their second consecutive win and a perfect 2-0 record. The loss was the second for RH Polo in as many outings leaving them with a disappointing 0-2 record. In a surprising turn of events, which proves that there are no guarantees in high goal polo, Apes Hill harnessed the 'tropical' wind and rain that greeted them at Cowdray for their match against Talandracas to run out the winners 9-6. An even first half was turned around in the fifth chukka as Eduardo Novillo Astrada scored twice to put Apes Hill in the lead. Alec White furthered the gap with a third goal and Talandracas could not reply, leaving them with an unhappy 2-0 record while Apes Hill even it up with one win and one loss so far. The action continued on Sunday with wins from HB Polo and Cowdray Vikings. Two more tight matches are a testament to the closeness of the competition this year as one goal wins seem to be the order of the day. Tied at half-time at 3-3, HB Polo worked hard in the fourth chukka to assert their dominance. This they did, continuing the offensive plays in to the fifth chukka. A last chukka comeback from La Bamba de Areco and some messy errors from HB Polo forced the match in to overtime. Following a brief intermission both teams returned to the field with La Bamba de Areco offering the opening offensive assault. HB Polo, however, reversed the field on them with Toccalino scoring on a long pass from Stirling for the win in the opening minute of overtime, 11-10. In their debut match of The Gold Cup, Murus Sanctus put up a tough fight against Cowdray Vikings, but were unable to overcome them. With Cowdray Vikings leading 9-5 in the fifth chukka, it looked to be a done deal, but a last minute rallying of the troops from Murus Sanctus saw Capella score back to back goals to bring Murus Sanctus back into the game and force Cowdray Vikings to fight for their first win of the tournament. This they did admirably holding on to their lead to win 10-9. For all the action from the previous days: Click here for Day 1 Click here for Day 2 Click here for Day 3 And click here for the full list of teams, results and fixtures. Photograph: Young guns Alec White and Tommy Beresford in a horse race. By ©www.imagesofpolo.com
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