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The Best of the Best in the sport

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In polo, each player receives a handicap on the basis of his polo skills. The highest possible handicap in polo is the +10 .Only the best players accomplish this. Currently only a handful of players worldwide play with a handicap of +10 goals. Here are the remaining players from last week’s compilatio­n of the ten best in the sport. Pablo Mac Donough also is a after playing a successful season cousin of the brothers Facundo, in the US. In 2012 his handicap Gonzalo and Nicolás. The had already been raised from Argentine Polo Player was born +9 goals up to +10 goals after in Pehuajo near Buenos Aires on winning the US Open, but in 21st February 1982 and began 2013 his handicap was lowered playing polo with his family at down to a +9 goals because a very young age. He started his of his lack of success during career with Ellerstina and won the season. 2014 found Sapo the Argentine Open in 2008 and returning to the US to play for in 2010 with the team, as well as Bob Jornayvaz’s team, Valiente. the Argentine Triple Crown in Valiente, with Sapo, together with 2010. In the following year he Bob Jornayvaz, Santi Torres and changed to team La Dolfina and Adolfo Cambiaso, triumphed in won the Argentine Open another the CV Whitney Cup, the first of three times. Currently he ranked three tournament­s that comprise number 5 of the World Polo Tour. the American Triple Crown

The Uruguayan polo player of polo. Sapo was awarded a David Stirling jr. is placed third +10 goal handicap rating once in the ranking of the World Polo again by the United States Polo Tour. The 10-goaler is also known Associatio­n for his brilliant play as “Pelón” and since 2009 he plays during a successful season with for Cambiaso’s La Dolfina. He was team Valiente. born on 4th January 1975 and so Miguel Novillo Astrada was the forty-year-old is a few months born on 10th February 1974 in older than Cambiaso and is an old Buenos Aires and plays with stager in the sport of polo. Since a handicap of +10 goals since January 2014 he plays with the January 2014 in Argentina. Until highest possible handicap of +10 last year the 10-goaler, also called in Argentina. “Miki”, formed team La Aguada

Guillermo Caset jr., also with his brother Ignacio as well called “Sapo”, was a polo prodigy. as the polo players Facundo Sola As a youth he raced through the and Guillermo Caset. In 2015 he handicap rankings going from wants to take a one-year break a +1 goal handicap to a +6 goal and will not participat­e in the handicap within a short 14 month Argentine Triple Crown. The period when barely 16 years old. biggest success of his career was in In May 2014 his handicap was 2003 when he won the Argentine once again raised up to +10 goals Open with his team La Aguada.

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