Best Polo Player of All Time

There has been some interesting discussion about who is the best polo player of all time.  Personally, I would have thought that Adolfo Cambiaso would be the obvious choice of almost everybody.  But it is not so.  Other very knowledgeable people have their own ideas of who is the best.  Two other names have come up already, Juan Carlos Harriott of Argentina, who won no fewer than 20 Argentine Opens!, and Cecil Smith of Texas who was a 10-goal player for 25 years!.  Personally I like all three of these great players, although in different ways.  Perhaps we can learn something from each of them.  But there is one who is my personal all-time favorite, and I will talk about him first.  Please feel free to post your own personal favorites.  Maybe we all can learn something.

GB

 

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Permalink Reply by GB Polo on June 3, 2012 at 6:51

Okay, my own personal favorite polo player is..... WILL ROGERS!!!

Here's a shot of Will reading a magazine, probably at the Riviera Polo Club in Hollywood:

I've heard that Will liked to play in a Western saddle with chaps, but here he is in more traditional polo attire:

We all know that Will was a cowboy from Oklahoma, but it is my understanding that he learned how to play polo in Argentina!

Permalink Reply by Luis Lagomarsino (polobreeder) on June 15, 2012 at 10:37

nice bit he used! lol

Permalink Reply by GB Polo on June 15, 2012 at 13:24

I think it is fair to say that Will was a little "unorthodox" in his choice of equipment.  ;-)

Permalink Reply by GB Polo on June 15, 2012 at 13:52

Here's a shot of Will in his non-polo attire.

Permalink Reply by GB Polo on June 16, 2012 at 10:00

I guess one way of defining "great" is who the player attracts to the sport.

Here's Will entertaining some of his Hollywood friends at his Santa Monica polo field.

Permalink Reply by GB Polo on June 16, 2012 at 10:01

Apparently Will was so "great" they named him honorary mayor of Beverly Hills.

Permalink Reply by Sani Umar on June 3, 2012 at 9:15

well with the argentine open being the most competitive and coveted in the game of polo, Juan Carlos Harriott takes the hat for wining it 20 times!

Permalink Reply by GB Polo on June 3, 2012 at 10:25

I agree that 20 times winning the AO is amazing.  But it was a different era.  I wonder if the horses were as good.  Or the riders.  Who knows how Juancarlitos would do today?

Permalink Reply by GB Polo on June 3, 2012 at 11:51

Here's a shot of Juancarlitos.

Permalink Reply by Ade Adedeji on June 27, 2012 at 14:49

Juan Carlitos would probably do exceptionally well today because He exemplified the discipline required of a professional even though he was not a professional. The Coronel Suarez team under the leadership of Juan Carlitos sought every advantage they could get from even the most seemingly inconsequential adjustments to their team and entire organization. This was why he was so succesful.

Permalink Reply by GB Polo on June 27, 2012 at 16:41

That's very interesting.  What were some of those "seemingly inconsequential adjustments" of which you speak?

Permalink Reply by Luis Lagomarsino (polobreeder) on June 3, 2012 at 14:03

I like to follow Alberto Pedro Heguy's idea of best polo player of all the times.

He said one on one Cambiaso will kill anyone, but as a team player Juan Carlos Harriot is the best.

Cheers!

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