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hosted the Artie Cameron World Junior Polo Tournament , and is now looking toward the USA vs England 22-goal Townsend Cup (look for coverage in the next issue of Sidelines) and an unprecedented Champions Cup, offering $60,000- $100,000 in cash and prizes, as well as hosting the USPA’s Western Region Interscholastic championships. We’ll have a lot of west coast polo to talk about!

Also hosted by Empire was the USPA Townsend Cup Challenge , a 22-goal arena polo match between England and the U.S. on Saturday, March 26th, 2011.

This is the highest-level of polo played in the Western United

States, and is a tournament that has been referred to as “The World Series” of arena polo. England sent one of their best arena teams to compete against an equally matched U.S. team.

Bumps and Bruises: Matias Obregon is recovering nicely from surgery to replace the lens of his eye after getting hit with a mallet in a 12 goal match in Wellington. Doctors are optimistic his sight will return, thankfully his goggles absorbed most of the impact and probably saved his eye. Um, facemasks, anyone?

PTF President Danny Scheraga sustained a broken leg in New York after being kicked by a horse while tying its tail.

Carlitos Galindo was fown in from Florida to play the 8 goal fnals for the CasaBlanca team with his father until Nick is ready to return to action.

Susan Shelly is on the mend in Lake Worth Florida. Hugs to you, kiddo, and we’ll be looking for you feldside just as soon as you can get around again.

Passing: Matias Coscia , 17, the son of Rube Coscia died in February. Any of Ruben’s friends who wish to help with the funeral expenses can address checks made out to:

Matias Coscia Memorial Fund Athens First Bank, Attn. Rachel Cooper 2100 Experiment Station Road Watkinsville, GA 30677

According to the Palm Beach Post, Nic Roldan is the “prince of polo” so how do we address him? Your Royal Poloist, perhaps?