DRAMATIC FINAL ONE OF LONGEST
The final always promised to be a dramatic encounter, but spectators could never have foreseen the turn of events which marked the match as one of the longest-ever Gold Cups.
Loro Piana, winners of this year's Queen's Cup, started out as favourites to win the match.
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Hide AdHenry Fisher, whose handicap is 3 goals, was playing at back for the opposing side, Lechuza Caracas, the team of Venezuelan patron Victor Vargas, whose key players, the Argentine Merlos brothers, Sebastian and Pite, were looking to upset the flowing game which Loro Piana had so clearly demonstrated throughout the English high goal polo season.
But for both sides, the match didn't go entirely to plan.
For full story see West Sussex Gazette Aug 1