ANNOUNCING A BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED LIMITED EDITION BOOK

Cowdray Park Polo Club - The Centenary is a celebration of one hundred years of polo at Cowdray Park - universally recognised as the Home of British Polo.
I feel enormously privileged to be involved in this unique recollection from the first chukkas on the House Ground in 1910 when polo was very much a 'gentleman's sport' to the present day where the Club hosts the country's premier high goal tournament, featuring the world's top international players, The Gold Cup. The intervening years, punctuated by two World Wars, and highlighted by the legendary late Lord Cowdray who continued to play regularly in spite of having lost his left arm at Dunkirk.

Brigadier Arthur Douglas-Nugent, (Polo Manager between 1989-2000), recalls the day when he suggested to Lord Cowdray that they play the 2nd high goal game of the day on Ambersham 2, having destroyed Ambersham 1 in the first game, 'They can't expect to play on a billiard table' was the gruff response and play promptly resumed on what resembled a ploughed field.
Anecdotes,(many of them much less tame than the one above) are coming in thick and fast and I welcome as many reminiscences as possible - fond, factual or risqué - as all will help to ensure this is a book which incorporates as many people and stories as possible. The aim is to produce a beautifully illustrated book that is as much a good read as an historic compilation of spectacular photographs of polo, players, ponies, and parties.
Clare Milford Haven - Editor

THEMES AND TOPICS

• Preface: H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh
• 100 Year Timeline
• The Cowdray Family
• Players, Patrons and Dynasties
• Royal Connections
• Polo Ponies, Yards and Grounds
• 'Behind the Scenes':
  • Polo managers
  • commentators
  • umpires
  • grooms
  • groundsmen
  • vets and farriers
• 'Off the Field':
  • members
  • spectators
  • celebrities
  • sponsors
  • parties and asados
• The Gold Cup
• Tournaments and Trophies
• International Links
• Pony Club

HOW TO ORDER

Only a limited number of copies will be produced of this edition.

Collector's Limited Edition: £100 (£110 to include delivery by courier within the UK)
Leather-bound Edition: £295 (including delivery by courier in the UK)

ONLINE: Online ordering is now available! To book your copy, please click here.

PHONE: Contact Cowdray Park Polo Club on +44 (0)1730 813257 (Weekdays 9.00 am - 5.00 pm GMT)

ORDER FORM: Return the completed order form, including a cheque or credit/debit card details to Cowdray Park Polo Club. Please ensure you include your email address so that we can confirm receipt of your order and inform you in due course of the collection details should you choose to collect your copy at the launch party or from the Polo Office.

To download the order form please click here.

Photographs courtesy of Michael Chevis, Alice Gipps, Kos Photography and Vanessa Taylor