58 SIDELINES NOVEMBER 2012
FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE
able to afford good horses and to become a better player – the
modeling helped me to achieve my dream of polo becoming a
bigger sport with many more spectators,” said Nacho. “I am a
real polo player and I think that being myself even when I model
helped to change how people look at polo. It’s a great thing to
do with your family, to share with your kids. It’s a great day out
and the horses are amazing, the game is exciting. I want polo
to become a sport where kids follow their favorite players and
dream of playing polo some day. I want people to see that they
can have fun with polo; that they can learn to play the game.”
Family and children are very important to Nacho, who is so
much more than a jet-setting polo player and fashion icon. He is
a very serious family man and adores his exquisite wife Delfna
Blaquier, a published photographer who grew up with polo and
horses in Argentina, and their three children. Nacho’s gypsy
existence – New York one week, Argentina the next, Beijing,
London, wherever – isn’t a dislocation, thanks to the presence
of his family.
Ask Nacho how he feels about being the object of women’s
romantic fantasies and he will smile, perhaps laugh a bit self-
consciously and then he will show the humble, real heart that
beats under that Black Watch team shirt as he states very
clearly: “I am married to the most beautiful woman in the world
and I adore my children. The modeling – I don’t see myself as
all that good-looking, but I am a polo player, I’m just Nacho, and
the modeling lets me do what I love to do. I love to play and I
like getting all kinds of people to come out and enjoy the game.
I love that my wife and my children travel with me. That’s the
best part – playing polo and being with my family and getting
other people to enjoy polo too.”
Nacho (center) is a good polo player and a
great sport. Nacho joins Outback’s Tim Gannon
(far left), Salvatore Ferragamo (partially hidden)
and John Walsh of “America’s Most Wanted”
(far right) for a group photo – and group hug.
Photo by Lauren R. Giannini
Nacho and his perfectly imperfect tousled hair.
Photo by Lauren R. Giannini