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THE POLO PARTY
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Record crowds flocked to the Arizona sports ground for a packed day of
music, fashion, cars and some great polo, says Jennifer Parks-Sturgeon
Arizona has been home to some of the
sporting world’s most watched and
discussed events, including the National
Football League’s Super Bowl and Major
League Baseball’s World Series. And towards
the end of last year, all eyes within the polo
world were fixed upon the desert state as,
on 5 November, polo’s hottest stars
converged on the fields of Scottsdale’s event
centre, WestWorld, for the sixth annual
Bentley Scottsdale Polo Championships
– aka ‘the World’s Greatest Polo Party.’
More than 12,000 fans gathered to
watch the four polo matches that took place
over the course of the bright, sunny day.
During the first game, the La Jolla Polo Team,
sponsored by Nationwide Insurance, were
felled by Purely Sedona’s Polo Azteca team
11–5. In the second match, Molina Fine
Jewelers’ Scottsdale All-Stars lost a bitterly
fought contest to Northwestern Mutual’s
Palm Springs Polo Team, 9–7. In the day’s
featured match, defending champions
Bentley Aspen Valley Polo Club won the
coveted Molina Cup by holding off Barrett-
Jackson’s Palm Beach Polo Team 7–5.
In this featured match, Aspen Valley’s
owner Melissa Ganzi scored an impressive
four goals to lead her teammates to the win.
Other players on her team included America’s
