Flying H and Kaia will play the final of the Iglehart Cup, after being victorious in the semifinals that took place on Saturday March 14. The tournament, which is the third and penultimate of the NPC 16-Goal Championship, had the league phase and semifinals played at Patagones Polo Club, in Wellington, Florida, United States, and sees thirteen teams up to 16 goals, compete.
It’s worth to notice that there’s only one tournament left within the series, the Outback Cup, prior to the big final of the NPC 16-Goal Championship, due on Sunday April 12, at the National Polo Center (NPC).
The two contests were hard fought games,both decided in extra chukka; Kaia beat Mrs. Momma Bear/LW Ranch 13-12, and Flying H earned a 7-6 win over 90210 Polo. Torito Ruiz and Miguelito Novillo Astrada scored the winning goals in extra chukka for Kaia and Flying H, respectively. One very significant achievement is that both lineups reached the final unbeaten, with a perfect 5-0 record each.
KAIA AND FLYING H WILL GO HEAD-TO-HEAD FOR THE IGLEHART CUP ON MONDAY MARCH 16, AT 4pm, AT THE NATIONAL POLO CENTER (NPC).
The Iglehart Cup is named after Philip L.B. Iglehart, who started to play polo as a boy, at Aiken Preparatory School in South Carolina; later, at St. Paul’s School in New Hampshire; and finally at Yale University, in Connecticut. Although he reached a 7-goal handicap, he left polo to pursue a career in business, and after a 20-year hiatus returned to reclaim his old rating, which he held for 13 years. Some of Iglehart’s accomplishments include a US. Open in 1953, leadership at Meadowbrook Polo Club in Medford, New York, and the creation of Gulfstream Polo Club (Lake Worth, Florida, now defunct). Iglehart was inducted into the Museum of Polo and Hall of Fame in 1993; he is not only a Hall of Famer but bears one of the Hall of Fame’s highest honors in his name. The Philip Iglehart Award was established in 2001 to acknowledge exceptional lifetime contributions to the sport.
IGLEHART CUP – Teams & Fixture
Cover photo by Agustina Fonda.