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A C T I O N
Caset earned MVP honors, with Hilario
Ulloa’s La Vina Castellana named Best
Playing Pony.
C A M B I A S O L E A D S V A L I E N T E T O
Y LV I S A K E R C U P T I T L E
Valiente (Bob Jornayvaz, Adolfo Cambiaso,
Santi Torres and Bautista Panelo) joined 12
more teams for the second 20-goal
tournament of the season, the Ylvisaker Cup.
The Pilot team with brothers Facundo
and Gonzalito Pieres, opened the
competition with a 13-11 win over Audi,
before going flat. A loss in the quarterfinals
knocked them out of the competition.
Henry Porter, who appeared on the
English team in last autumn’s FIP World
Championships, made in impressive debut,
with his GSA entry in spite of opening losses
to Tonkawa, 12-7, and Valiente, 7-6.
GSA edged past Postage Stamp Farm and
Pilot in quarterfinal play for a semifinal berth
against Pilot. After trailing 5-2 at the half,
Mariano Gonzalez scored six second half
goals to sneak past the Pieres brothers, 10-9.
Valiente beat Coca-Cola and GSA before
falling to Travieso. Wins over SD Farms and
Tonkawa, sent them through to the final of
the tournament
Valiente was confident, but veterans
Matias Magrini and Mariano Gonzalez
led GSA to a 4-3 halftime lead. Cambiaso
outscored GSA, 4-1 in the fourth and fifth
chukkas carrying them to the 8-6 win.
Cambiaso scored six times and was
named MVP while Gonzalez’s six-year-
old gray American Thoroughbred, Macarena
earned Best Playing Pony honours.
P I L O T G O E S U N D E F E AT E D T O
W I N I G L E H A R T C U P
Six teams lined up for the Iglehart Cup, and
it was here that the Pieres brothers found
their groove.
Pilot beat La Indiana and Postage Stamp
Farm and downed Coca-Cola in semifinal
play. La Indiana notched wins over Postage
Stamp Farm and Goose Creek to make their
way to the final.
The Pieres boys started to click, showing
some of the brilliant teamplay that made a
champion out of King Power in England as
they rode past La Indiana, 11-9. Eighteen-
year-old Toro Ruiz earned MVP honors and
From top:
Mariano
Gonzalez’s BPP Macarena
in the Ylvisaker final;
Timmy Dutta (in black)
ahead of Jeff Hall in the
Igelhart final
Gonzalito Pieres’s So Easy was named Best
Playing Pony.
With the USPA lowering the handicap of
the US Open to 22 goals in 2019, this year’s
two-goal tournaments give a strong
indication of the level of competition that
will be on the fields next year.
