Lovy Beh is senior vice president of BP
Healthcare Group and the founder of Lovy
Pharmacy. She is also the president of the
Malaysian Community Pharmacy Guild. She
has been playing polo since the age of 12 and
was the first female Asian player to play on
field no 1 in Palermo, Argentina.
I began playing polo with my dad and
brother when I was 12. I started with show
jumping, but once I took up polo, there was
no turning back – I was hooked!
Polo is our family sport. It helps to
improve my management skills, which
benefits our healthcare business.
For me, the perfect game of polo is
hitting a few good shots, scoring some goals,
playing with great teammates, and, most
importantly, coming out of the match with
myself and my horse intact.
My most memorable game was the final
of the Pilara Cup in 2016, and I’ll never
forget making history as the first Asian
female polo player to play on field no 1 in
Palermo, Argentina.
To date, the highest goal polo I’ve played
is the 22-goal Laureus charity cup in England
against the King Power team. It was amazing
to have Pablo MacDonough and David
Stirling, champions of the Palermo Open
2016, as my teammates.
I’m also particularly proud of being
awarded MVP during the 2016 Laureus Polo
Cup in England, and winning the Polo One
Charity Cup in 2016 alongside Francisco
Elizalde, Hilario Ulloa and the Malaysian
Youth and Sports Minister YB Brigadier
General Khairy Jamaluddin.
H O O K E D O N P O L O
L O V Y B E H
M A K I N G H I S T O R Y
I N T H E P O L O
H A L L O F F A M E
On 17 February, the Museum of
Polo will host the Hall of Fame
awards gala and induction
ceremony. Icon Mariano Aguerre
will be honoured for his career
in American polo and John
‘Jackie’ Murphy (
left
) is
recognised as the posthumous
inductee, having compiled an
enviable record in polo before
his untimely death, aged 37.
Museum founder Leverett
S Miller will be honoured for
outstanding contributions
to the sport, and the Horses to
Remember honouree of the early
era is Chicken, who made polo
history under Malcolm
Stevenson.
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G R A N D C H A M P I O N S W I N T E R S E A S O N
The much-anticipated 2017 winter season at Wellington’s Grand Champions Polo
Club started in January with a record number of teams, players and leagues.
Highlights of the season are the Sterling Cup (22 February-11 March); the US$50,000
National 12-Goal Tournament (1-11 March); the National 20-goal (15 March-1 April);
and the US$100,000 World Cup Tournament (1-15 April) – a unique winner-takes-all
single-elimination tournament, open to teams of any handicap from 0 to 40.
The 16-20-goal Sterling Cup – which was the second tournament of the
22-goal season at the Palm Beach Polo and Country Club, attracting 16 teams
– and the World Cup have both been resurrected by Grand Champion Polo Club
owners Marc and Melissa Ganzi in the hope of recapturing the prestige of the
game’s heyday. The Ganzis purchased Lyndon Lea’s 102.8-acre Zacara compound
during the summer and renamed it Santa Rita Polo Farm after her grandmother,
who passed away on 29 December 2012.
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