Tag archives: Santa Barbara Polo

PCO Final Portends End of 2026 High-Goal Polo Season, And More Sports
By Steven Libowitz   |   September 1, 2026

Santa Barbara Polo’s high goal season comes to its conclusion with the final weekend of the U.S. Polo Association’s Pacific Coast Open, the most prestigious tournament of the summer and one of the oldest as it got started a few years after the turn of the last century. Just five teams are competing for the […]

Polo’s Silver Sunday
By Richard Mineards and Friends   |   August 18, 2026

By Lisa Duncan Sunday brought championship silverware to the Santa Barbara Polo & Racquet Club, where Delta Defence captured the Whittier Trust Silver Cup following the three-week tournament, which ran from July 19 through August 9. The winning foursome of Jared Zenni, Segundo Bocchino, Costi Caset, and Ivan Weiss stepped forward to collect the trophy, […]

Peak Polo has Arrived, Plus a Paddle Raise 
By Steven Libowitz   |   August 18, 2026

Time was that the very venerable Santa Barbara Polo Club fielded 20-goal teams that competed in high-goal season, meaning the total handicap (a high number is better) could not exceed a total 20-goal rating among the four players. That’s what allowed the then-consensus best player in the world Alberto Cambiaso to grace us with his […]

A Divot-ing Evening
By Richard Mineards   |   August 5, 2025

It was a very in-tents occasion when Santa Barbara Polo Training Center hosted its 9th annual gala dinner for 120 all-white clad guests at the Carpinteria locale – which enabled the purchase of a much needed $77,000 John Deere tractor. Each year, the 13-year-old organization makes $10,000 grants to UCSB and Westmont College polo team […]

Reining In the Support
By Richard Mineards   |   June 6, 2023

It was a very in-tents occasion when Santa Barbara’s Polo Training Center hosted its sixth annual dinner for 120 guests at the Carpinteria venue, raising around $100,000. Each year, the 11-year-old organization makes $10,000 grants to UCSB and Westmont polo team members to cover expenses at the Santa Barbara Polo Club’s polo academy. In addition […]