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By Betsy Parker
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Cognizant of her own tentative start in the sport of polo, when former show jumper Maureen Brennan decided to establish the Virginia International Polo Club at Llangollen, her family’s recently-acquired 1200-acre estate in Upperville, her first step was to set up its polo school.
Brennan was an international level show jumper until seven years ago. She was invited to participate in an exhibition “Twilight Polo” match at Great Meadow involving show jumpers. She asked organizers for a polo lesson.
That’s all it took.
“I was hooked,” she said.
Since then, Brennan has emerged as a driving force in organizing higher-goal matches and leagues in the area. Her Goose Creek team went to tiie finals of the US Polo Association’s 26-goal Gold Cup tourney in Aiken, S.C. last year, losing to New Bridge — a championship team anchored by 10-goaler Adolfo Cambiaso — by only one point.
German Noguera, a Chilean 3-goaler, is VTPC manager and runs the club’s polo school. With two grass fields being put in and an arena slated for completion in June, Noguera looks forward to further expansion in the sport.
“We’re looking to provide a venue primarily for various levels of grass polo,” he said. “The arena is just for rainy days and won’t be lighted. We’re not going to be competing for Great Meadow’s niche.
“We understand that for any dub to be sustainable, it needs to continually feed new players into the system,” Noguera explained. The polo
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