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DOLFINA the laboratory of success Just 100 kilometres separate Buenos Aires, the Argentine capital, from Cañuelas, a place known worldwide in polo spheres as the headquarters of the best polo player in the world, Adolfo Cambiaso, and the most highly acclaimed team of recent times, La Dolfina.
Founded in 1995 by Cambiaso with the help of his brother-in-law Bartolomé Castagnola, La Dolfina has become a ‘laboratory’ of success. La Dolfina, by combining the words Dolfi (Cambiaso’s nickname) and Argentina, is a 50hecatare piece of land, much of which La Bocha European Polo had the opportunity to visit during the latest Copa Diamante. This expanse of countryside has all the infrastructure and comforts that a high-goal polo player dreams of. These include several polo fields (including one for 3-aside matches), stables for around 120 horses, the clubhouse and Cambiaso’s own house, where the star lives with his mother, the model María Vázquez, and his two sons, Mía and Adolfo Jr. La Dolfina gives meaning, shape and
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structure to its seasons from these headquarters. It also cultivates the future of a business/team which promises the live on beyond the men who currently wear its colours. This is why Cambiaso keeps a tight rein on every step taken there and
Between La Dolfina and a field he owns in Córdoba, Cambiaso rears around 700 horses per year on everything that happens or doesn’t happen. And this is why it is not unusual to see Cambiaso toing-and-froing on a low-power
motorbike, supervising every last detail. The star of world polo starts his day at La Dolfina early in the morning with a maté among his staff, with whom he plans the day which naturally includes polo practice. These training sessions generally involve figures of the stature of Lucas Monteverde, Bartolomé Castagnola and Mariano Aguerre, his team mates, in addition to other stars of Argentine polo: a luxury which only La Dolfina can enjoy. But to play at the standard of these giants of polo one has to be well mounted, and this is the other facet of La Dolfina, the horses. Between La Dolfina and a field he owns in Washington, Córdoba province, Cambiaso rears around 700 horses per year, which are either sold or used by the club. The price of a top specimen starts at 60,000 euros. La Dolfina’s horses are not short on