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Results - Australian Open Polo at Doomben

25 Sep 2011

Team V-Zug beat Wastecorp in the finals of the Australian Open played at Doomben in front of a crowd of over 3,000 spectators. Winning margin in Final was 11-10.

Team V-Zug
C.P. Reid 0g
Z.G. Hagedoorn 3g
R.C. Rawlings 4g
R.G. Ballard 5g

Team Wastecorp
M.C. King 1g
D.I. Gould 5g
D.P. Johnston 5g
R.M. Wanless 0g

In the Subsidiary-final Mandalay beat Custodian by 9-8. Mandalay was K.L. Grimmond, M.C. Welsh, G.A. Gilmore and N.R. Bowen.

The Wallace Horsley Memorial Trophy for Champion pony was won by R.G. Ballard with “Hot Wheels’’ owned by Jo-Anne Reid.

Details of teams can be obtained from website of Queensland Polo Association.

See http://www.hannahmillerick.com.au/polo/ for photos from the day

ABC news featured a story on the Australian Open – To view please see:
http://www.abc.net.au/sport/more/video/
then click on:
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