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Prize Awarded Vasca Harrods by AACCP at Palermo Ch1 3:15 3 minutes, 15 seconds Ch5 6:15 6 minutes, 15 seconds Ch8 1:41 1 minute, 41 seconds Daughter of Polo Sol Puro and Vasca Confianza Undefeated in this tournament, La Dolfina won the 123 rd Argentine Open Polo Championship and the award to Best Playing Registered Pony of Polo Ar- gentino Breed granted by the Argentine Associa- tion of Polo Pony Breeders, as well as the Argen- 11:11 Vasca Harrods was the mare with most minutes played on the field at the 2017 Total played: 11 minutes, 11 seconds. Argentine Open Polo Championship. tine Rural Association award, which both went to Vasca Harrods, played by Juan M. Nero. Ignacio Toccalino and Mariano González were the Judges and Pepe Heguy arbitrator at the final. The prize was handed out by the Presidents of both institutions, Mr. Santiago Ballester and Dr. Luis Mi- guel Etchevehere respectively. Juan Martín Nero: “She Played Amazingly Well” La Dolfina’s back highlighted the Polo Argentino pony’s performance during the Palermo Open fi- nal, and says that she is a mare that is “very easy to play”. As they celebrated, Juan Martín Nero took a few minutes to analyze Vasca Harrods’ performance. “She really played a very good game”, he said. “I made her enter the field three times during the match and never imagined that she’d hold out as long as she did. She always had what was needed for each play. She played amazingly well”, added La Dolfina’s back. 240 “The mare is very easy to manage and when you need her to—in a match like the final—she never stops running. The goal she made on the side of the score-board happened because of the spe- ed and staying power of this mare, who overtook everyone on the way”, he explained happily as he continued to receive acclaim. And finally he told us when, during the match, he played her. “I put Vasca Harrods on the field during the first minutes of the first chukka. She then played in the fifth until she was hit by a ball, and I took her out so that she should recover, and I ended the game with her. The truth is the little mare did magnificently”.