FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE
SIDELINES OCTOBER 2011 81
WY summer polo season!
In conjunction with its recent merger with
Brookshire Polo
Club
,
Houston Polo Club
is welcoming polo player Alee
Messina as their new sales and marketing rep! Nothing like a
polo player to help create a polo fan.
John Bary has on schedule a fve-race, three-country
campaign with New Zealand Derby winner
Jimmy Choux
who
used to train polo ponies before moving on to race horses.
Wedding bells:
In Wyoming
Scot Shields
and Jen Kraft
,
and
Drew
Luplow and Amanda Diehl
tied the knot, while in
Michigan
Nick Cifuni and Libby Keating
exchanged vows this
month.
Shane Winkler
and his squad will be missing from
IPC
during
its busy winter season. Formerly a feldsmanager and announcer
at IPC, Shane accepted a year round job in Wyoming, and will
be missing his frst winter season in Florida in over 10 years.
Congratulations to
Herbert Spencer
, doyen of polo
communicators, has been made a Life Member of the
Hurlingham Polo Association
in recognition of his more than
40 years working in the international polo community. Herbert
published polo’s frst coffee table book,
Chakkar
, in 1971; an
international magazine of the same title in the 1980s; and his
second book on the sport,
A Century of Polo
, in 1994. He is
currently Deputy Editor of
Hurlingham
magazine; columnist
and feature writer of
Polo Times
; principal polo writer of
Horse
& Hound
; and a contributor to
Polo Players Edition
(US). His
international communications consultancy, Herbert Spencer
Media, is based in Berkshire, England.
We recently heard that
Tracy Topping
has given the
International Polo Club Lodge
and the
Wanders Club
a
much needed face lift. The renderings are fabulous and when
polo season opens everyone’s jaws will drop with excitement,
we promise.
Bumps and Bruises: Leo Benjamin
is recovering from
a broken hip sustained after
Nancy’s
horse spooked, and
collided with him! Knowing Leo, he’ll be back in the saddle in
record time.
This seemed to be The Summer of the Collar Bone.
Trystan
Smith
in Poway, CA,
Jared Sheldon
in Santa Barbara, CA
and
Rodrigo Moran
of Jackson Hole Wyoming all broke collar
bones this past summer while playing. Each is expected to
recover.
Sugar Erskine
went into a hard bump with
Jeff Blake
in
Santa Barbara, and his horse went down. He tore the ligaments
in his ankle in the wreck, and was replaced by
Carlos Gracida
for the rest of the season.
Rick Pacius
took a ball to the face in Aspen, fracturing his
cheekbone and making him look like (in his words) a medicated
chipmunk.
News to share: New baby, engagement, pickup truck? On
the move, having parties, falling off horses? Share what’s
happenin’ with your polo friends by e-mailing us at editor@
sidelinesnews.com. Be sure to put “News for Asides” in the
subject line.