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Crowds gathered at Grand Champions Polo Club for a series of exciting
games that more than lived up to expectations, says Sharon Robb
The $100,000 event took place in Wellington,
Florida on 15 April in front of the largest
celebrity-filled crowd ever to witness
a polo game, as well as a worldwide
ChukkerTV audience. The 21-goal Palm
Beach Illustrated team captured the
winner-takes-all tournament with
a 13–7 victory over Valiente I.
The young, talented underdog team of
Jared Zenni, Santi Torres, Agustín Obregón
and Tommy Collingwood finished the
eight-day, 16-team, single-elimination
tournament undefeated (4–0).
Palm Beach Illustrated’s road to their
biggest prize cheque in polo included wins
over 16-goal International Polo Club (Grant
Ganzi, Jason Crowder, Jesse Bray, Juancito
Bollini), 14–8; 17-goal GSA (Henry Porter,
Torito Ruiz, Joaquin Panelo, Matias Magrini),
9–8 (OT); and 23-goal Valiente II (Rob
Jornayvaz, Matias Torres Zavaleta, Diego
Cavanagh, Tomas Garcia del Rio), 17–12.
Obregón scored a game-high of eight goals
and was named Most Valuable Player.‘To
beat two Valiente teams is awesome,’ said
Obregón.‘Valiente is one of the best
organisations in the world. It’s great to play
against them and to win is even better.’
In three of their four games, Palm Beach
Illustrated had to dig themselves out of a hole
due to their opponents’ handicap ratings.
Valiente I, an 18-goal-rated team (Bob
Jornayvaz, Roberto Zedda, Pablo Spinacci,
