THE HALL OF FAME
THE ARGENTINE ASSOCIATION OF POLO PONY BREEDERS OFFICIALLY INAUGURATED THE HALL OF FAME AT THE ARGENTINE POLO HEADQUARTERS, WHICH DEPICTS THE BEST HORSES IN HISTORY.
By Federico Levy
The President of the AACCP, Mr. Santiago Ballester, together with Eduardo and Pepe Heguy unveiled the Panel of Honor where the three first specimens of the Hall of Fame appear.“ This idea occurred to us four years ago”, Santiago Ballester told us“ at a meeting in Palermo where we were analyzing how to honor the best mares in history to play at Palermo and the main Opens; Horacito Heguy came up with the idea of creating a Hall of Fame for those best ponies. The second important point to discuss was how to choose those horses, and after long debates, Delfin Uranga came up with‘ The Tens vote Ten, by which it was established that all those who had been 10-goal-handicap players in Argentina, would vote the ten best horses they’ d ever seen or played.
Thanks to the vote of 34 players who had held a 10-goal handicap rating, and who chose the best horses they had every played or seen, the selection was made and the intention of the AACCP, through the Hall of Fame, will be to remember those great horses that made Argentine Polo great.”.
“ It is an honor for me as President of the AACCP to inaugurate the Hall of Fame which is a way of uplifting the history of the Argentine Polo Pony”
SANTIAGO BALLESTER
The Hall of Fame includes exclusive videos of the horses to be found there, with special productions that were carried out with players, breeders and grooms of each one. Additionally, technology is in line with this proposal, since at Palermo, through QR Codes, visitors to the AACCP stand may download videos of the horses that belong to the Hall of Fame.
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