The British Open Polo Championship for the Cowdray Gold Cup, hosted by Cowdray Park Polo Club, in Midhurst, West Sussex, is entering the last week of the stage league. Following the matches played through Friday July 4 and Sunday July 6, that saw UAE, Kazak, Aureus GV, Jehangiri, La Dolfina Scone and Ferne Park victorious, the most important polo tournament in England, and one of the three Grand Slams of Polo, alongside the Argentine Open and the US Open, is expecting the last three days of league games (July 7-9) prior to the quarter finals, due through Saturday July 12 and Sunday July 13.
These have been the results of the games played through Friday July 4 and Sunday July 6:
- Friday July 4
UAE 16-12 La Magdeleine
Kazak 14-13 La Dolfina Marqués de Riscal (extra chukka)
- Saturday July 5
Aureus GV 12-11 Calatagan (extra chukka)
Calatagan: Juan Martín Zubía subbed in for Benjamín Panelo.
Jehangiri 10-6 Park Place
Jehangiri: Emily Johnson subbed in for Muhammad Jehangiri.
Park Place: Matías Maldonado subbed in for Andrey Borodin.
- Sunday July 6
Kazak 11-4 Valhalla
Valhalla: Justin MacRae subbed in for Emma MacRae
Gaston 11-9 UAE
THE TOURNAMENT IS ENTIRELY STREAMED LIVE THROUGH COWDRAY TV, WITH THE PRODUCTION OF POLOLINE TV HERE
The last league games of the British Open Polo Championship for the Cowdray Gold Cup will take place through Monday July 7 and Wednesday July 9:
- Monday July 7
11,30am: Dubai vs. Calatagan
3pm: White Crane vs. Signet Thai Polo
- Tuesday July 8
11,30am: La Dolfina Scone vs. King Power MB
2pm: Park Place vs. La Magdeleine
4pm: La Dolfina Marqués de Riscal vs. Sujan Indian Tigers
- Wednesday July 9
11,30am: Jehangiri Polo vs. Gaston
2pm: Valhalla vs. Ferne Park
4pm: Aureus GV vs. Bangash
(UK times)
The championship match of the British Open Polo Championship for the Cowdray Gold Cup is due on Sunday July 20.
The tournament was established in 1956 by Weetman John Churchill Pearson, Third Viscount Cowdray and the man behind the revival of polo in England after the devastating Second World War, is most significant contest of the competitive English season. Thoroghout the years, the British Open saw a large number of stars of the sport in participation, and several had lifted the coveted golden trophy. This significant achievement has been shared by fathers, children and grandchildren on several occasions. The first lineup to claim the British Open, back in 1956, was an Argentine lineup, Los Indios, made of Jorge Marín Moreno, Pablo Nagore, Antonio Heguy and Juan Echeverz. Antonio Heguy was the first member of the legendary great family of polo who won the British Open, and his legacy continued with his grandsons – the first to make it were Eduardo and Ignacio Heguy, in 1996, with CS Brooks; then, Bautista Heguy, with Geebung (2000), in a foursome that saw him playing together with no less than Adolfo Cambiaso. The last member of the Heguy family to claim the British Open was Marcos Heguy, in 2004, with Azzurra.
More info and data about those who made history at Cowdray Park HERE.
British Open Polo Championship for the Cowdray Gold Cup – Teams & Fixture
Cover photo by Mark Beaumont.