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Injuries take their toll Cortium’s seven-goaler Jaime Huidobro broke his collarbone during the quarter-finals of the Cartier Queen’s Cup in June. However, the seven-goaler was soon back in the saddle after he went to see the same doctor – Miguel Olivera – that fixed JP Clarkin’s broken collarbone last year. Within a week of the operation he was back playing practices and two weeks later – before the start of the Gold Cup – he was playing matches. This will certainly be the surgeon every player will have on speed dial this season. A couple of weeks later, at Burningfold, their resident pro Jamie Le Hardy (pictured above) received a ball to the eye while playing in an 8-goal tournament at the club in June. Fortunately Jamie was wearing goggles at the time. “If it were not for the goggles, the doctor said I almost certainly would have lost the sight in my eye,” Le Hardy told Polo Times. At Burningfold on the same weekend, one-goaler Sarah Wiseman lost a tooth while playing and Claire Donnelly was hit in the neck by a ball from a backhand from her husband. No doubt there were a few words afterwards!
Tareq Salahi, the American polo player best known for gate-crashing a dinner party at the White House with his wife Michaele in 2009, has recently announced his candidacy for Governor of Virginia. However, he and his wife are now separated and, the day before Salahi submitted his intention to run for office, it was revealed he is being sued by one of his fellow candidates.
Overheard...
at the Carter Queen’s Cup quarter-finals…
I only just realised that Adolfo and Cambiaso are the same person…
Dubai polo manager expecting first baby Desert Palm polo manager Martin Valent (right) and his wife, Lupe – the sister of eightgoaler Nic Roldan – are expecting a baby. The Argentine five-goaler played in the Coronation Cup against England in 2009, as well as for highgoal team Dubai in the same year.
Fifield players get hitched in style Two players from Fifield Polo Club, Chris Lynch and Laura Vivash, got married on 12 May at Windsor Guildhall. They were hoping for a polo match to feature as part of their wedding reception but the preceding weeks’ rain meant it couldn’t go ahead. The pair, who have been together for six years, regularly play on the same team and, after returning from their honeymoon in Crete, they went on to win the Jubilee Challenge (-4-0 goal match) with Los Blancos on 4 June.
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Ryan Pemble and Sid Owen (aka “Ricky!”) www.polotimes.co.uk
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