DRAMATIC FINAL ONE OF LONGEST

HENRY Fisher from Midhurst, whose mother Jane retired only this season as staff supervisor at Cowdray Park Polo Club, played a useful role in his team's victory in the final of the recent Veuve Clicquot Gold Cup for the British Open Polo Championship at Cowdray Park.

By The Newsroom

Published 31st Jul 2007, 15:09 BST

Updated 8th Jun 2018, 03:26 BST

The final always promised to be a dramatic encounter, but spectators could never have foreseen the turn of events which marked the match as one of the longest-ever Gold Cups.

Loro Piana, winners of this year's Queen's Cup, started out as favourites to win the match.

Henry Fisher, whose handicap is 3 goals, was playing at back for the opposing side, Lechuza Caracas, the team of Venezuelan patron Victor Vargas, whose key players, the Argentine Merlos brothers, Sebastian and Pite, were looking to upset the flowing game which Loro Piana had so clearly demonstrated throughout the English high goal polo season.

But for both sides, the match didn't go entirely to plan.

For full story see West Sussex Gazette Aug 1

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