The draw of the British Open Polo Championship for the Cowdray Gold Cup was held

The draw of the British Open Polo Championship for the Cowdray Gold Cup was conducted on Monday June 9, at Cowdray House. The tournaments, the highlight of the high goal season in England, is hosted by Cowdray Park Polo Club, in Midhurst, West Sussex, and it is one of the three Grand Slams of Polo, alongside the Argentine Open and the US Open.

 

The British Open Polo Championship for the Cowdray Gold Cup will take place through Tuesday June 24 to Sunday July 20, and will see eighteen teams up to 22 goals, partake. The tournament will be entirely streamed live on PoloLine TV through CowdrayTV.

 

Following the draw, teams were split in four leagues as follows:

League A: Winner semifinal Queen’s Cup (4pm), Kazak, Valhalla, Ferne Park, Sujan Indian Tigers.

League B: Winner semifinal Queen’s Cup (12pm), La Magdeleine, Jehangiri, UAE, Gaston. 

League C: Loser semifinal Queen’s Cup (12pm), La Dolfina Scone, Aureus, White Crane. 

League D: Loser semifinal Queen’s Cup (4pm), Calatagan, Signet/Thai Polo, Bangash.

 

The British Open Polo Championship for the Cowdray Gold Cup 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.