OM Polo

Old Marlburians were well represented at recent prestigious polo matching including the Best of British at the third annual Polo at Marriners event at Amelia Lady Northbrook’s farm. Freddie Dear (TU 2006-11) played in the Best of British under 21s Polo for the Bourne Valley Inn which beat the Dundas Arms Team on 26th May 2013. Harold Hodges (CO 2005-11) played in the Savills Team for the Best of British under 25s match on the same day. His team lost! See Polo Times

Tabba Woodd played in HRH The Duke of Cambridge’s winning team in the Chester Audi Polo Challenge title held at Chester Racecourse in May 2013. See Polo Times 

The current Marlborough polo team also marched to victory on Cheltenham College’s invitations Day on 1^st June 2013 at Cirencester Park Polo Club. They have also won the Schools and Universities Polo Association Senior School’s National Championships at Dallas Burston Polo Club. See the Polo page on Peter James Photography

On 9th June, at Cirencester Park Polo Club, Cheltenham College hosted this event with three matches: Cheltenham College Junior School v Beaudesert Park School; Cheltenham College v Marlborough College and OCs v OMs.

To see a slideshow from the day, please click here.

Old Cheltonians v Old Marlburians
This match was won by Marlborough 5.1/2-3 with a handsome trophy to show for it. As a 7 goal team against an 8 goal team we had started with half a goal.
Our OM team of Harold Hodges (CO 2005-10), Patrick Ephson (C1 2003-08), Freddie Dear (TU 2007-11), Bobby Dundas (TU 1997-01) played Old Cheltonians Ludo Ephson, Max Lopez -Valido, Dom Heywood and Tom Beim. A full report will be added shortly.

Cheltenham v Marlborough
The College team of George Meade (Captain) (C2 U6), Christopher Pritchard (B1 U6), Roddy Seymour-Williams (C1 L6) and Harry Davies (BH Re) played a very strong Cheltenham team of the Severn brothers, JJ de Alba and George White.  It was a close match with good play and despite going into the fourth chukka at 3-4 and gaining a goal we could not secure a win. Chelentham won 6:-4. A report of this will be added to the College Website.
 
All the teams were well matched and provided spectator sport. The team's families were all there as usual. We were delighted to meet OMs and those who had come from the College to support. Thank you to Peter Bryan, the Bursar, the Carroll family (B1) and Martin Evans, Jane Pendry and Jan Perrins from the Marlborough Association Team.

Felicity O’Sullivan
Polo Manager