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Ten-goal players. Mariano Aguerre - Argentina / USA [1] Alex Ferrer - Pompano Beach; Gerald Balding (1903–1957) - England's last 10 goal player; ... List of polo ...
Cambiaso at the International Polo Club, 2016, wearing his distinctive helmet colors of Argentina. Today, [when?] he is considered the best player in the world [3] and the most successful player in the Argentine Open, competing 15 times and winning 7, and played in the final another 2 times. He scored 535 goals in the Argentine Open alone ...
Facundo Pieres (born May 19, 1986) Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires Province is a professional Argentine polo player with a 10 goal handicap. In October 2022, he was ranked number one by the World Polo Tour, but fell to number two, behind Adolfo Cambiaso , in early 2023.
The players are rated on a scale from minus-2 to 10. Minus-2 indicates a novice player, while a player rated at 10 goals has the highest handicap possible. It is so difficult to attain a 10-goal handicap that there are fewer than two dozen in the world, and about two-thirds of all players handicapped are rated at two goals or less.
In Friday's matches at Grand Champions Polo Club in suburban Palm Beach County, Harry's Royal Salute Sentebale team beat Figueras' squad 3-1, with the prince scoring the opening goal. He picked up the ball at midfield — 150 yards (137 meters) from the goal — and repeatedly hammered it the rest of the way, popping it through the goal posts.
Gracida trains and sells polo ponies of all levels: low-goal, medium-goal and high-goal horses used by 10-goal players. At his farms in Argentina and Florida, he maintains an extensive polo pony breeding program that utilizes top Thoroughbred bloodlines and embryo transfers from some of polo's best playing mares.
The polo legend has been called one of the greatest polo players of all time. Pushing 50 years old, the athlete has already racked up quite the resume when it comes to wins in the sport.
He won the British Open Gold Cup ten times, more than any other player, and won the US Open nine times. He reached 10 goals in 1985 and spent fifteen years on and off at 10 goals, including the 2006 season in Palm Beach. Gracida was ranked 9 goals in England, where he was reportedly HM Queen Elizabeth's favorite player.