LA DOLFINA MARQUÉS DE RISCAL AND DUBAI, FIRST CLASSIFIED TO THE SEMIFINALS OF THE HIGH HANDICAP
SAN ROQUE, Sunday, August 23, 2026 – The outlook at the Ayala Polo Club High Handicap Gold Cup is exciting. This Sunday morning, in a penalty shootout carried out due to the three-way tie in the final standings of Zone 1, La Dolfina Marqués de Riscal and Dubai were left with the first available places for the semifinals.
Their opponents will be known this Monday. And it is that also in Zone 2 there was a triple tie that will have to be settled through penalties, because Amanara, Brunei Polo Team and Sainte Mesme finished with a record of 2 wins and 1 loss each.
Amanara won a vibrant match against Essso by 15 to 13, in which there was no shortage of emotions. Amanara led 9-4 after the first 3 chukkers, but in the fourth quarter Essso scored a 6-0 run and turned it around. The last two chukkers once again brought out the best of Amanara, who had in Facundo Pieres their top scorer, with 7 conquests, and who ended up winning the result.
For its part, field 4 was the scene of the match in which Brunei Polo Team played, perhaps, its best game of the season, and beat Sainte Mesme with authority by 15 to 8 with 9 goals from Pablo Mac Donough to secure, thus, a place in the penalty shootout.