Jaeger-LeCoultre Autumn Cup Final ends the 2014 season at Cowdray
By Victoria Elsbury-Legg
As an undeniable Autumnal nip now permeates the air when riding out morning sets, the 2014 English Summer season came to an end at Cowdray Park this weekend with the last HPA 12 goal tournament – the Jaeger-LeCoultre Autumn Cup being played on Sunday. Starting on Monday 8th September with a game between Emlor and BHC, the other teams involved in matches over the two weeks were: Shoreline, Shalimar, Maiz Dulce, Silver Fox, Tempest, Four Quarters Orange, Snakebite, and Four Quarters Black.
Last year Charlie Pidgley’s Cadenza Juniors (Mathias Carrique, Will Emerson and Peter Webb) won the tournament beating Black Eagles (Jonathan Munro Ford, Jack Hyde, Chris Hyde and James Harper) 6 – 5.5. With neither of those teams competing in 2014, it was Four Quarters Black, Silver Fox, Emlor and Shoreline who made it to Friday’s semis, with BHC, Tempest, Shalimar and Maiz Dulce all competing for a place in the Subsidiary Final.
Romilla Arber’s Four Quarters Black (Edward Morris-Lowe, Richard Le Poer and Max Charlton) and Emlor (Laura Ormerod, Ed Hitchman, Manolo Fernandez_Llorente and Tom Brodie) were the two teams to reach Sunday’s Final (with Four Quarters Black having defeated Silver Fox 7-6 in the semis and Emlor beating Shoreline 10-7).
Starting the final day of the tournament with the Subsidiary Final at 11.30am, Gustav Rausing’s Tempest (Ryan Pemble, Hissam Ali Hyder and Jack Mesquita) won by a goal, 3-4 over Kassem Shafi’s Shalimar (Nicolas and Vieri Antinori and Charlie Scott). Lifting up the Jaeger-LeCoultre Autumn Cup and the Casablanca prizes at the end of play later in the day was a smiling Four Quarters Black, having beaten Emlor by 7 goals to 4. MVP was awarded to Max Charlton and BPP to Ed Hitchman’s 9 year old New Zealand mare, Rose, who was sired by Rossini.