Estancia Los Potreros

Last week, Los Potreros proudly entered a team into a ‘Polo three’s’ tournament, held over a long weekend at a nearby polo estancia called ´Pompeya’. The awesome threesome consisted of (left to right), Humi ‘if we don’t win I´ll eat my hat’ Pizarro, Kevin ‘if we don’t win I´ll make Humi eat his hat’ Begg, and Plomo ‘everyone else will eat my hat because I can’t control my horses’!!

The first round went extremely well, with a resounding win for the Los Pots Hotties! Kevin returned wondering whether Cambiaso would like to come for a training session with him to pick up a few tips, after scoring 3 goals. The second round on Friday was a little more sobering, when their opposition (Humi’s retired uncle and a twelve year old) took their team to a 5-4 win against our local heroes.

Unfortunately after that, rain stopped play, and the remaining game in the qualifying rounds was decided on penalties against some strange handicapping system, that meant that our team returned crestfallen, having not reached the finals. Humi is still convinced that our team won though, so that is good enough for us!

A particular mention of thanks and applause to our lovely and very patient horses, who took all of this in their stride (literally), but were extremely happy to get back home to their green fields and our happy-go-lucky weekly polo amongst friends, watched only by a couple of hopeful vultures . . .