List of polo players
Main article: Polo
Ten-goal players
- John Arthur Edward Traill (1882–1958)[1]
- Gerald Balding (1903-1957) England's last 10 goal player. The Gerald Balding Cup is held annually at Cirencester Park Polo Club in his memory. In the 1920s he played in England, America and India. In 1930, 1936 and 1939, he played for England against the U.S.A. for the Westchester Cup and was field captain of the English team in 1939. He was a brilliant striker of the ball and was rated as one of the finest players ever seen.
- Aidan Roark (1905–1984)[2]
- Louis Ezekiel Stoddard (1881–1951)[3]
- Bartolomé Castagnola (born 1970)[4]
- Lewis Lawrence Lacey (1887–1966)[4]
- Adolfo Cambiaso (h) - Argentina (born 1975)[4]
- Adolfo Cambiaso - USA / England[4]
- Mariano Aguerre - Argentina / USA[4]
- Bartolome Castagnola - Argentina[4]
- Ricky France-Lynch - England (Fictional)[4]
- Bautista Heguy - Argentina / England[4]
- Carlos Gracida (h) - Mexico (1960-2014)[4]
- Ignacio Heguy - Argentina[4]
- Marcos Heguy - Argentina[4]
- Pablo Mac Donough - Argentina / Spain / USA[4]
- Agustin Merlos - Argentina / Spain / USA[4]
- Lucas Monteverde - Argentina[4]
- Juan Martin Nero - Spain[4]
- Miguel Novillo Astrada - Argentina[4]
- Facundo Pieres - Argentina / USA[4]
- Gonzaho Pieres (h) - Argentina / France[4]
- Gen Joginder Singh - Patiala tiger team, India both Joginder singh and Jaswant Singh were popularly known as Jaggo and jasso, the two legends of Indian Polo [5]
- Col. Jaswant Singh - Patiala tiger team, India[6]
Best known outside of Polo
- Dennis Coleridge Boles
- Winston Churchill
- Nacho Figueras
- Martin Garrick
- Douglas Haig
- Tommy Lee Jones
- Lyndon Lea
- Harry Payne Whitney
- George Patton
- Carlos Menditeguy
- Mike Rutherford
- Flash Gordon (fictional)
- Francis Boulle
Royalty
- Charles, Prince of Wales
- Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
- Prince William, Duke of Cambridge
- Prince Harry
References
- ↑ Laffaye, Horace A. (2007). "Johnny Traill: An Irishman from the Pampas". Profiles in Polo:The Players Who Changed the Game. McFarland & Company. p. 54. ISBN 978-0-7864-3131-1.
- ↑ Leonard Mosley (1985). Zanuck: The rise and fall of Hollywood's last tycoon. McGraw-Hill.
His name was Aidan Roark and he was a charming Englishman and a ten-goal player of polo. Aside from his skill with a mount and a polo mallet, Roark really didn't have a brain in his head. Zanuck installed him in an office at Fox and ...
- ↑ "Died". Time magazine. March 22, 1948. Retrieved 2011-04-13.
Louis Ezekiel Stoddard, 70, socialite polo star of three decades ago; of a heart ailment; in Los Angeles. He played on two international challenge teams (1913, 1921), became a ten-goal man in 1922.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8 4.9 4.10 4.11 4.12 4.13 4.14 4.15 4.16 4.17 Polo Players Handicap, Federation of International Polo, retrieved February 27, 2012
- ↑ Polo in India by Jaisal Singh
- ↑ Polo in India By Jaisal Singh