Polo starts this weekend with the KL Polo Club’s Season Opener. RMPA will also hold a 4-goal Merdeka tournament, which is nowadays classified as a medium goal. With Ramadan just a few weeks away, the polo season will really get going in May, with the best polo in June, July and August.
Here is the schedule for the year:
RMPA has published handicap list on WhatsApp, presumably in addition to the last handicap list of 2020. Here is their document: RMPA DOC-20230227-WA0027.
Unfortunately I won’t be here to play this weekend, as I will be putting on my FEI Level 3 Course Designer’s hat. I shall be course designing a show jumping event in Singapore at the Singapore Turf Club Riding Centre, nowadays run by my old friend and fellow Asian Games rider Roy Ibrahim.
I was last at STCRC for the 2010 Youth Olympic Games, already 13 years ago. Zack’s Tack won a contract to supply the fences and saddlery for the Youth Olympics. All the fences were designed by John Vallance, who is an FEI Level 4 (Official) course designer, and built in Singapore.
I had a bit of input in the designs as I have known John since 1991, and was happy to make suggestions on things like the butterfly fences – which is a story in itself!
Bukit Timah Saddle Club has finally moved out of Bukit Timah, moved into new premises at the Turf Club. And with Colts Polo School also there, Kranji is becoming an equestrian hub of its own.
It feels good to be going back to my old riding haunts, if only for a few days.
Recent PBITG Links:
Paris 2024 Olympic Pictograms
The Prophet’s Thumbprint
Pre-Season Tack Check
In Memoriam: Marco Fuste
Argentina: A Quantum Leap
Argentine Open Polo Tour
CSI 1* EAM-KLPC International Show Jumping
Cody’s Wish – A Real Life Fairy-tale
Argentine Open Polo Tour
Authentically Australia
FRICking Amazing
CSI Thoughts
The Cycle
KLAP and the KL Youth Polo Academy
Stable Science
A Sexy MVP
Level 3
Hat-Trick
New Polo Calendar
Julian and Aimann’s Handicaps Go Boom
Boom! Boom! Boom Chukka Laka
Into the Final
Boom Through to the Semi-Finals
The Low Goal League
Inaugural FIP Women’s Polo World Championship
Breeds and Breeding
Coaching the Coaches
Help Rebuild Yayasan Chow Kit
KL Academy of Polo partners with International Polo Academy
Bad Helmets
The Chronicle of the Horse: Arguments Against 3-Rider Teams Don’t Convince
Be Careful What You Wish For
The Flying FRICsters
Pony Clubbing at KL Academy of Polo
Helmet Safety
The Cost of Horses
The 2011 FIP Polo World Cup
Caroline Chew is Singapore’s First Olympic Equestrienne
Mark Wightman: Waking the Tiger
