Marqués de Riscal wins the Gold Cup

The Marqués de Riscal team was proclaimed the winner of the high handicap Gold Cup on Sunday 29th August, after beating Ayala Polo Team 14-10 in the final of the 50th International Polo Tournament by La Reserva Club de Sotogrande. This trophy, the last to be disputed after the Volvo Bronze Cup and the Terralpa Silver Cup, is part of the Grand Slam and is one of the four most important in the polo universe. The final was attended by the Vice-President of the Junta de Andalucía, Juan Marín, who took part in the trophy presentation ceremony after the match, played at the Santa María Polo Club. The stands and boxes were packed with spectators and the atmosphere was exceptional. Nothing to do with the previous year and the first year of the pandemic. It has been more than a month of intense competition with 19 teams participating at the highest level, which have returned to put Sotogrande in the centre of the media attention of the sport worldwide.
The final lived up to the expectations. The team of Spanish patron Marqués de Riscal, formed by Alejandro Aznar, Santiago Cernadas, Guillermo Caset and Cruz Heguy, was ahead on the scoreboard in all the chukkers or times in which the match is divided. The Ayala Polo Team, captained by Íñigo Zóbel, gradually closed the gap during the match, especially in the second and fourth chukker. In the end, the Marqués de Riscal team won by 14 goals to 10.

The great honoree at the 50th International Polo Tournament was the great forerunner of the sport in Sotogrande, Don Ramón Mora-Figueroa, who took home a copy of our magazine.