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Saturday, August 23, 2025

Scribble Horse Created History By The Winning Women’s Inaugural Polo Tournament

The team which comprised of Kathy Iverson, Ashley Emerson, Kylie Sheehan and Courtney Asdourain won over Erika Lipton, Breanna Gunnell, Jennifer Williams and Clarissa Echezarreta; the team of Farmington Polo Club with the score of 3.5-3.
The Consolation game was won by Masai of Palm Beach over the foursome Cecelia Cochran, Slanley O Hanlon, Annabell Begg and Amy Huson by a wide margin of 9-4.

“The Brainchild of Carta”, is a unique monthly polo league in the world. She was one of the top-ranked woman in the 1980’s.Carta initiated the idea and communicated it to Mellisa Ganzi who herself is a supporter of women’s polo.
Carta in an interview told us how she felt about polo and how encouraging Mellisa was for executing her idea, she said, “This is what polo used to be for me. We play with friends, laugh and then go have lunch. This leads to a lot of other teams getting formed for other tournaments.

I want the girls to play well but also have fun, enjoy themselves and be courteous.Melissa was really supportive and gung-ho the first time we spoke,We had a

second meeting in September and after that I started calling all the girls individually which led to other girls being interested.”
The January Women’s Polo League featured four teams and six have already given confirmation for the month of February. This is an evidence of the fact that women playing will grow and become popular in the coming future.

Asdourain was declared as the most valuable player of the event, giving her opinion about the success of this event she said, “I love this concept, it’s amazing to have games guaranteed once a week,The idea was to get out there and play fun, competitive polo. This is a great venue. It’s organized and everything is so professional. It’s helping the women step up their game and take it to the next level.”

The two young players Hope Arellano raised to three goals and Mia Cambiaso raise to two goals.Their fathers are polo prayers too and have supported their daughter since the very beginning.
Asdourain said,“I love it, those girls shred, “They are strong players. It’s exciting that they are going to bring the sport forward. We now have people coming up to the sport. It’s not just our generation and then it’s going to die off.

They are getting even more experience than the rest of us. By the time they are my age they are going to be lights out and hopefully we will have another Sunny Hale coming through the pipeline.”
Scribble Horse was a runner-up last year but this year they emerged victoriously,

The oldest woman who played in this league was Iverson. The 63-year-old former artist started playing this game two years after her husband died.
To encourage polo among all older woman she said, “Other women think they are getting too old to play polo and I just started two years ago when I was 61, the team’s patron who moved up to a 1-goal rating this season. I couldn’t be happier with this team.I went back to what makes me happy and that’s horses,And yes, I win because I am with these young girls who just go get ’em and know how to play.”

Sunny Hale who was the first woman to ever win the US-open was enthralled by the creation and growth of WCT. She further said that this league encourages women to play and learn polo at all levels on a regular basis.

The Winter 2017 Schedule is as follows

Metropolitan Cup (6 goal): Saturday, Championship Final, and Handicap Final.

Aspen Valley Cup (8 goal): Sunday, Final 10 a.m., Handicap Final, noon.

The Limited Edition Series (12 goal): Saturday, Handicap Final, 1 p.m. and Final, 3 p.m.

FEBRUARY: 1-26, Halo Polo Trophy (6 goal) and Top Pony 8 Goal Series; 1-25, USPA Sieber Memorial Trophy; Women’s League, every Wednesday.

FEBRUARY 22-March 11: Sterling Cup (20 goal) and John T. Oxley Memorial Trophy (Subs. Handicap).

MARCH: 1-26, Madelon Bourdieu Memorial (6 goal) and The Limited Edition 8-Goal Series; 1-25, The Top Pony 12-Goal Series; Women’s League, every Wednesday.

MARCH 1-11: $50,000 National 12-Goal Tournament (Single elimination).

MARCH 15-April 1: National 20-Goal; Santa Rita Abierto (Subs. Handicap).

APRIL 1-15: $100,000 World Cup Tournament (0-26 Goals), winner-take-all single elimination.

APRIL 1-25: Las Acacias (4-8 Goals), Women’s League, every Wednesday.

APRIL 5-8: WCT Finals and Women’s Polo Week.

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