Five horses travelling to The Jockey Club de San Isidro before the Club's famous Open tournament were found to be suffering from Equine Infectious Anaemia, also known as swamp fever.
La Aguada (Agustín Merlos, Guillermo Terrera, Sapo Caset and Ignacio Novillo Astrada) scored the winning goal in overtime to beat La Aguada/ Las Monjitas (Ignacio Toccalino, Pite Merlos, Eduardo N. Astrada Jr. and Alejandro Novillo Astrada) 11-10 in the opening round of the 2015 Tortugas Open at the Tortugas Country Club in Argentina.
H.H. Sheikh Falah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Chairman of Ghantoot Racing & Polo Club, approved the 2015-2016 Ghantoot Activities program, which includes many domestic and international events starting on the 16th of October 2015 and coming to a close on the 9th of April 2016.
Family and friends of Will Tankard will be celebrating his life at the Aiken Polo Club Saturday, Oct. 3rd at 2 p.m.. Will, 3 of his horses and his dog were killed in a crash in Ohio in late July.
Alegria (Magoo Laprida, Hilario Ulloa, Lucas Monteverde and Fred Mannix) bounced back from their loss to Ellerstina in the Jockey Club final by racing past Chapaleufú (Pepe Heguy, Nachi Heguy, Bautista Heguy and Eduardo Heguy)15-11 in the opening match of the 2015 Tortugas Open at the Tortugas Country Club in Argentina.
Back in England the summer season has come to an end and the chill of winter is coming on, but in Argentina the weather and the teams are just starting to warm up.