Polo in Argentina

The late Horace A. Laffaye was a polo player and surgeon. He was on the board of directors of the Museum of Polo and was chairman of the Polo Hall of Fame Nominating Committee. His writings on the game included several books and many articles in magazines in North America, Argentina and England. He lived in Durango, Colorado.

Table of Contents


Acknowledgments

Foreword by Chris Ashton

Preface

1. How Polo Started in Argentina

2. The First Clubs and Polo in the Hinterland

3. The Game Is Organized: The Polo Association of the River Plate

4. The Oldest Clubs: Venado Tuerto, Hurlingham, Media Luna and Las Petacas

5. Early Championships 1893–1900

6. First International Game and Tours to England

7. Early Prominent Polo Families

8. Palermo: Polo’s Cathedral

9. The P.A.R.P. Championships Prior to the Great War

10. 1914, Changes to the Rules, and All That

11. 1922, a Time for Change: Polo Became Argentine

12. Polo in the 1920s

13. Campeonato Argentino Abierto de Polo 1923–1930

14. Gold Medals Only: The Olympic Games

15. Argentina versus U.S.A.: The Cup of the Americas 1928–1936

16. The Big Clubs: Growth and Evolution of Los Indios, Tortugas and Coronel Suárez

17. Visitors from Foreign Lands

18. Argentine Tours Overseas

19. Don Paco Ceballos and the National Handicap Championship

20. The Argentine Open Championship in the 1930s

21. The Years of the Great Depression

22. The War Years and the Aftermath 1940–1950

23. El Trébol and Venado Tuerto: The Glorious Days of the Giants

24. The Changing of the Guard

25. The Growth of the Game 1950–1960

26. The Cup of the Americas 1950–1980

27. The Aristocrat of Polo: The Times of Juancarlitos Harriott

28. The Days of Coronel Suárez versus Santa Ana

29. The Expansion of the Game in the 1970s

30. Argentine Military Polo

31. Travels Abroad and the Development of Professionalism

32. Argentina and the Federation of International Polo

33. The Era of La Espadaña

34. Myths in Argentine Polo

35. The Decade of ­Indios-Chapaleufú

36. 2005–2013: The Years of Ellerstina and La Dolfina

37. International Matches in the 21st Century and Some Final Thoughts

Appendix A. Polo Championships

Appendix B. Polo Pony Awards

Appendix C. Presidents of the Asociación Argentina de Polo

Appendix D. List of Polo Clubs in Argentina

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index