Block · one region of the page, as the scanner read it. It may hold a whole story, part of one, several, or an advertisement; stitching blocks into articles is the next step. Text is supplied OCR.
Page 5 · column 5 of 9 · from the scan, no model involved
uflrnnt tUJ I UHIINSOlN
Rappahannock Ncw» Suff Writer
Marcos Bignoli is a man chasing a dream and that dream is the ten goal handicap of a trop rated professional polo player.
His quest has brought him to Rappahannock County where he’s training and riding for Bill Fannon at Fannon’s Castleton polo field.
Polo isn’t a household sport in the United States. It doesn’t even take second billing. Instead, if it makes the list of favorite sports at all, it falls at the bottom behind the traditional front runners of baseball, football, basketball, golf, track, tennis and horseracing and the alsorans of dog racing, rugby, soccer, boating, bowling, steeplechasing, auto racing, volley ball and hockey.
But judging by the recent surge in the number of clubs across the country, polo is undergoing a transformation from rich man’s hobby to full-fledged spectator sport. “They’ve just opened a polo school near Middleburg. People don’t even know how to ride and they want to learn polo,” Marcos said, shaking his head and smiling. Not that Marcos is surprised at the interest in his favorite sport. Polo has been an obsession with the shy Argentinian since he was a kid.
88.5%