Misha Rodzianko has traveled from Moscow, Russia to play at the Palm City Polo Club. PHOTO BY SHILENKOV MAXIM
Moscow Polo Club Strikes International Alliance With A Local Polo Facility By Darlene Ricker
An international mecca for polo, Wellington has long drawn players from across the world, especially, of course, from polo hotspot Argentina. This season its reach is expanding to embrace another part of the planet less well-known when it comes to polo: Russia. Through the efforts of Misha Rodzianko and Joey Casey, the Moscow Polo Club has teamed up as a sister club with Palm City Polo in western Boynton Beach. For Rodzianko, who jets in regularly to train with Casey, that now means spending at least four months a year in the Wellington area. The highest-rated polo player in Russia, Rodzianko
is director of the Moscow Polo Club, the oldest and largest polo club in the country. His father, Alexis Rodzianko, the club’s president, purchased it in 2005. Misha Rodzianko adopted Palm City Polo as his U.S. home shortly after Casey opened the club in late 2014. While he found the facilities superb — which is saying a lot considering the number of top-
(Left) Charlie Muldoon and Misha Rodzianko play in the finals of the sixth annual International Gay Polo Tournament at the International Polo Club Palm Beach in Wellington. PHOTO BY LIZ LAMONT wellington the magazine | january 2016
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