Scone wins second leg of Gauntlet of Polo at International Polo Club Palm Beach

WELLINGTON — On a historic day, Scone won the USPA Gold Cup, the second leg of the Gauntlet of Polo, Sunday at International Polo Club Palm Beach.

Scone defeated Tonkawa, 13-10, on U.S. Polo Assn Field One to take home $100,000 in prize money.

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It was the first title Australian sponsor David Paradice and his Scone team of father and son Adolfo and Poroto Cambiaso and Peke Gonzalez won at IPC.

Ten goaler Adolfo Cambiaso, the world's best polo player, first won the Gold Cup when he was 15 as a member of Cellular One in 1991.
Thirty years later, his son Poroto, won his first Gold Cup title at 15 and was named Most Valuable Player. It was Adolfo Cambiaso's 15th Gold Cup win. It was also the first win for father and son at IPC.

"It is the dream of every father in polo to play polo with his son," Cambiaso said. "I am living my dream.
"Winning with my son is even better [than winning No. 15]," Cambiaso said. "Thanks to David to believe in us and for the opportunity to play with my son."

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Added Poroto, "It's incredible to play with my father ... we are so happy to win."

Paradice, 62, is the first Australian to win both the USPA Gold Cup and Cartier Queen's Cup in 2019 at Guards Polo Club in Windsor, west of London. He grew up riding horses and started playing polo 10 years ago.
"It's great and unique to be playing with the Cambiasos," Paradice said. "I just happen to be fortunate enough to be caught up in this vortex of him wanting to win with his son.

"The first time he won this was when he was 15 years old and first time Poroto won this today he is 15 years old. We are proud of that and proud of the history. To be part of that and be part of the history is amazing."

Scone, named after a small town that is known as the "horse capital of Australia," played its best game of the season. The foursome jumped out quickly, scoring seven of the first eight goals and forcing Tonkawa (Jeff Hildebrand, Lucas Escobar, Sapo Caset, Fran Elizalde) to play catch-up for the entire game.

Scone capitalized on four early penalty conversions from Adolfo Cambiaso and Peke Gonzalez and all-around play of Poroto Cambiaso. Scone held Tonkawa to three goals in the first half to lead 8-3. The second half was much of the same with Scone leading 10-4 after the fourth and 12-5 after the fifth chukker.

"We got lucky in the beginning of the first chukker," Gonzalez said. "We got some goals and built that lead. We knew they were going to come back. Tonkawa is a great team and we knew it was going to be tough."

Adolfo Cambiaso scored a team-high five goals. Poroto Cambiaso had four goals and Gonzalez three goals. Ten-goaler Sapo Caset had a game-high six goals. Elizaldo added two and Escobar had one.
Scone was 9-of-16 and Tonkawa 6-of-19 in shots from the field. Scone was 4-of-6 and Tonkawa 4-of-7 in penalty conversions. Scone led in fouls, 12-11, and Tonkawa led in throw-ins won, 16-6.

"We were under the stewardship of a great man, the greatest player that's ever been," Paradice said. "It's like he has cameras all over his head, he sees everything on the field."

Monjita Coronada, played by Adolfo Cambiaso and owned by Cambiaso and Pelon Stirling, was selected Best Playing Pony. Another Cambiaso horse, Lovelocks Camuserich, was chosen Argentine-bred Best Playing Pony.

The U.S. Open Polo Championship, the third and final leg of the Gauntlet of Polo, also got underway Sunday with La Indiana routing Santa Clara, 18-9, in the opening game. Ten-goaler Polito Pieres scored a game-high nine goals. Nico Escobar and Jeff Hall each had three goals.

Because of COVID-19 protocols, polo matches at IPC are not open to the general public except for season box holders and those ticketed for Sunday brunch.
She came to Srivilliputtur to file nominations as a dummy candidate for her father P. S. W. Madhava Rao, the Congress candidate for Srivilliputtur Assembly constituency, But she turned into a substitute candidate for him in electioneering.

A resident of Chennai, Dhivya Rao had never been into politics. This engineering graduate also does not have any experience in students’ union activities. But when her father was hospitalised after being infected with COVID-19, she readily came forward to fill his absence in election campaign.

“I never had any experience in politics. But I had to do it for my father,” says this young mother of an eight-month-old infant.

The short duration for electioneering this Assembly election has been so demanding that she is engaged from early morning till late night and even could not take care of her son who is left under the care of others.
She has been going to the nooks and corners of the constituency in the campaign vehicle. Accompanied by a group of women, she walks on the streets to meet voters. “I am telling voters that I have come to seek votes for my father who is down with COVID-19. I also tell them that soon he will be back to meet them,” she said.

Though she has to put up with the scorching sun, Ms. Dhivya said the warmth she received from voters is what keeps her going.

Among the regular promises of development of the constituency like Azhagar dam scheme, she also recalls her father’s promise that, if elected, he would donate the monthly MLA salary all through his five-year tenure for the benefit of the needy.

She is hopeful of a huge victory for her father, “for the voters in the polling booths will look at the party symbol to vote for him. That way the ‘hand’ (Congress symbol) will be very helpful,” Ms. Dhivya said.