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Mare in a 20-goal tournament and was chosen as
one of the three best mares to play the US Open.
She was destined to stay with us and did.
And as regards Lavinia Cábala, Hilario played his
first “Potrillitos” tournament on a dappled mare
that he bought years ago and was rather criolla.
Later I gave him a stallion that you chose for us,
Santiago, a Mariache-Pretty Swan that produced
another good award-winning mare for me with
Adolfo Cambiaso at Hurlingham, Ilusión.
That mare produced a dam, and in those days
Hilario was 12 or 14 years old, and that dam, with
Dolfina Millonario produced Cábala, that played
the Open for five years, including the 2013 Open
final and which is now in the United States with
Hilario. In this case I tamed the grandmother;
mother and this mare.
Lavinia Alianza: She comes from Thoroughbred
Racehorse stock. I name racehorses a lot because
in those days I had no genetics I could purchase
and wasn’t ready to pay those prices, so I began
by buying pure-bred fillies and taming them.
Her dam, “Política” is a Political Ambition, that
played very well and produced this mare that was
schooled here and thanks to the fact that Hilario
took her abroad where polo is more easy-going
than in Argentina, she attained a very good level
of play.
Lavinia Candileja: Again talking of purchases,
that was when I bought Saeta, a mare with very
good pedigree that used to run unofficial short
races, and I let her loose among my herd and she
produced a daughter with Salt Lake, Candileja,
which even though she did not prove to be a crack
player, she took a little longer and ended up playing
in the US and in the Open.
Saboya Estrella: This mare comes from Miguel
Botte stock. I met him through Martín Reynal,
whom I have a very good relationship with. She
is a daughter of Caro Siempre and Ester. Miguel
brought her as a tamed filly, we took her to
Palermo and she came third. That is when Hilario
and I bought her. That third prize didn’t demoralize
me, but we worked on her and Hilario took her
with him to England and she carried off the Gold
Cup horse-blanket to the best-playing mare, after
which she returned to the US.
Caro New Sun: During all the years that we tamed
Martín Reynal’s ponies, one year he decided to
pay us with fillies. And one of them was Caro New
Sun, a daughter of Anciano and New Sun, a Cinco
Grande Thoroughbred Racehorse.
Future Lituania: She is a grey mare that Carlos
De Narváez brought for me to tame here, out of a
mare whose offspring we had already been taming
and which Gonzalo Pieres likes very much which
is Lindsay, with Open Sunset as her sire. Later,
when he offered her to Hilario he bought her and
she played the Open for 3 years and is now also in
the US, one of the few mares that you may still see
playing with four reins.
Picosita: When Hilario was at Palm Beach he
always used to look out for new mares and bought
them and schooled them himself. He would break
them in a bit and then play them at Greenwich,
where polo is easy-going, and that is how he got
this one and some others that are playing the Open.
Machitos Tecla: When Hilario went to Greenwich,
he purchased three mares from Mariano Aguerre,
and schooled them as he played them. One of
these is Tecla, a daughter of Machitos Chelo and
Tatiana.”
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