Anuario Raza Polo Argentino Anuario2017 | Page 235

MG: “What can you tell us about tamers?”
APH: “Last year I was at a meeting at the SRA with
Polito Ulloa, Eduardo Zabalo, Ariel Bonilla, Gringo
Lemembri having mate until late. Polito asked me:
‘You who give your horses to anyone to tame, what
is your opinion of what we do?’
My answer was: ‘I hand my horses over to be tamed
to anyone so long as they hand them back tame.
After that I take over. I am one of you; I consider
myself one of you. I respect you a lot because you
can have 4 or 5 helpers, but when you take over,
the colt turns out really good. I believe in you; you
may have different systems, but I don’t believe in
systems, I believe in the talent of the tamer; in his
management. The system is good if you yourselves
apply it…”
BB: “On the other hand, there are many good
tamers who come from having worked with
Polito, who is the most famous polo-pony
tamer.”
MG: “Yes, yes, but some are good and others
not… It’s not a question of applying a method
and that’s it…”
APH: “I believe in personal talent. I still continue
doing things the old way; I still believe in personal
talent over measuring… All the same, measuring
is useful for leveling; so that it is not necessary to
seek a person with talent, but that they know the
system in order to turn out a good horse.”
MG: “I remember Marcos Heguy saying
something during an interview which was very
controversial: ‘The tamer is of no importance at
all…’, but he could say that because afterwards
Marcos would end up breaking them in himself.”
APH: “I give them to a couple of ‘gringuitos’ (foreign
boys), who own a small farm over in Parera, for
taming. Just now you asked me about two horses,
Gran Caruso and Tragedia. They were tamed by
that ‘gringo’ in Parera. And they have aptitude; I
believe in the genetic aptitude of the horse first,
and in the talent of the person managing them
second. I don’t care much about systems.”
BB: “Once Pancho Bensadon said to me ‘Watch
out with the Heguys, they’re better than their
horses….’ By this I mean, when you say ‘I do
such and such a thing’, it is precisely the case
in which talent is the determining factor.”
MG: “It’s like Cambiaso who can beat you on
the horse kept in the pen at night in case it’s
needed…”
APH: “And Bautista, who made his horses fly:
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