The northeast championship to be held Feb. 11 in Georgetown
Holding a polo rivalry in the winter may appear to be odd, however not to Boston Polo Club proprietor and chief Mark Tashjian.
“Snow polo events are held in different parts of the world, for example, Aspen (Colorado), Montreal and Czechoslovakia. They’re truly awesome events,” said Tashjian, who, in August, moved the BPC from South Hamilton to its present area at the Twisdenwood Farm on Andover Street. “Our office is truly adapted to do this kind of occasion.”
The club, which has 80 horse stalls, three outside fields, an indoor field and a polo field, will have the Northeast Snow Polo Championships on Feb. 11. The office is one of the biggest equestrian focuses in New England.
Tashjian said the indoor, open-floor stable is nearby the playing field and this takes into account onlookers to see the procedures in solace in spite of the stormy conditions.” This is the primary (snow polo occasion) in the Northeast,” Tashjian said. “We expect around 250 individuals. We certainly think there will be at any rate that numerous.”
Polo in the snow is very little not quite the same as the game as it would be played under normal conditions.
“It’s like normal polo aside from there’s a littler field and it’s three-on-three rather than four-on-four,” Tashjian clarified. “Polo is the centerpiece of what we do, yet there is a considerable measure of different exercises (at the occasion).”
Tashjian said individuals can meet and have pictures brought with the steeds, and children can work on hitting balls with practice mallets. There is likewise nourishment and music. He said the club has held four events since it moved to Georgetown.
“There’s very little polo in the range, so we’re a central location in New England. It’s worked out well. Individuals from everywhere throughout the Northeast and the past go to our events,” Tashjian said.
Club promoting executive Andrew Gotthelf said the fascination is as much social as it is amusement driven.
“By mid-February individuals are burnt out on the winter, and it’s extraordinary for them to make tracks in an opposite direction from hibernation and connect with each other,” Tashjian included.
Gotthelf said the Feb. 11 rivalry is an approach to keep the club energetic into the new year after a solid conclusion to 2016.
“We’re planning a full slate of events for the coming year, and needed to expand on the force we picked up with our last couple of events of 2016,” he said. “The people group truly turned out and demonstrated their support, so we need to ensure that they feel we are responding and doing our best to make the greatest number of these events as we can.”
Tashjian said he began the club four years back to give individuals a chance to learn and play focused polo without the money related duty of owning a polo horse. He first got intrigued by polo while at the University of Connecticut and has overseen other polo clubs far and wide. Tashjian said he is additionally an affirmed US Polo Association umpire and authorized Massachusetts riding teacher.
