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England on numerous occasions and reached
a seven-goal handicap.
Henry’s son Richard, the Earl of Tyrone,
achieved a six-goal handicap and currently
mainly plays the England circuit of medium-
and high-goal polo. Charles’ son Tommy
maintains a six-goal handicap and mostly
plays the high-goal circuit around the globe.
Tommy achieved greatness when winning the
Queen’s Cup with Adolfo Cambiaso in 2017,
and later went on to narrowly lose the US
open with Adolfo the following year.
Curraghmore Estate is made up of
2,500 acres of formal gardens, woodlands
and grazing fields, making it the largest
private demesne in Ireland and one of the
most spectacular to visit. Times change
and diversification is key to maintain the
upkeep of estates that were designed to
survive simply through farming and forestry
hundreds of years ago.
The Curraghmore Estate plays host to the
hugely successful music festival named All
Together Now, where in the first weekend of
August every year thousands of festival goers
arrive to enjoy one of the most unique
It very much laid the foundation for
what polo is today, and the Beresfords were
proud of their involvement. Lord Patrick
also started the polo pony welfare
committee, which was adopted by many
polo organisations around the world to
the benefit of every polo pony that has played
the sport since, providing a safer and more
professional set of standards for the care
of polo ponies. Lord Patrick says this is his
biggest achievement within polo.
Caroline de la Poer Beresford, the
eighth Marquess of Waterford’s wife, and
mother to Henry, Charles, James and Alice
also came from polo stock. Her father Captain
Richard Wyndham-Quin of the 12th Royal
Lancers was a part of the winning Irish side
that claimed the last Patriotic Cup versus
England played in Hurlingham in 1921. He
was wounded in the First World War and
awarded the Military Cross for his bravery.
All three of John Hubert’s sons turned
professional in their own right; Henry,
the now 9th Marquess of Waterford, was
a professional based in Cirencester for
25 years and his brother Charles represented
