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With success both on the field and at the stud, Charlie Hanbury is making waves
in the polo world, as Carolina Beresford discovers
El Remanso had a killer season. Any team
that beats Facundo and Gonzalito Pieres
once deserves respect, but any team that
beats the 10-goalers twice deserves
a medal. Sure, El Remanso lost out on
the trophy, stumbling at the finish line and
losing the final of the Gold Cup to double
champions King Power Foxes – but they
won the admiration of the international
polo community, a triumph in itself.
Charlie Hanbury is the heart of the team,
and at age 31 he is playing his best polo
yet. After the 2016 season, El Remanso
regrouped and vowed to work harder, on and
off the field. ‘We all went out and invested
in more horses,’ says Hanbury. ‘We had
a personal trainer, Gus, with us throughout
Argentina and England, who got us all on
a training and dietary programme. We also
spent two weeks out in Argentina playing
together as a team in April, before coming
back to play the Trippetts Challenge, and we
had Eduardo ‘Ruso’ Heguy coaching us, who
got us playing more open, four-man polo.’
Their hard work paid off – 2017 saw
El Remanso make it to the semi-final of the
