archie david cup
Fortunes changed dramatically in the fourth. It started with a penalty for Sladmore / Twelve Oaks which Hyde shot through and followed up with a 40-yarder a minute later. He then sent a big hit up to Horswell to level the scores 6-6. Hyde was then in the right place to pick up a loose ball to fire home another to give Sladmore / Twelve Oaks the lead for the first time in this game.
Meanwhile, it was the turn of Limitless / Silvertown’ s Michael Henderson to be awarded a yellow card. Extra time looked likely when Limitless / Silvertown were awarded a penalty with only two minutes remaining, but unusually Amaya produced a miss hit. You could feel the tension now and it resulted in two further penalties for Limitless / Silvertown in the final minute. Incredibly, Amaya’ s 60-yard shot went wide and Hyde then stopped Amaya’ s 40- yard shot, ensuring victory for Sladmore / Twelve Oaks.
With such a strong entry, the Archie David sub final is always keenly contested. This year the honours went to Chester / Stobart. They defeated Alan Fall’ s Mad Dogs 7-6 to win the Caterham Cup.
Guards Polo Club’ s own teams who are knocked out of the early stages of the Archie David have a chance to continue playing – in the Claude Pert Cup. Alexie Calvert-Ansari’ s White Crane( rec ½ goal on handicap) came out best in this match, defeating new Club patron Mindi Byrne’ s Tex8n Polo 6½-5.
Sladmore / Twelve Oaks: Nicolas de Poligny( 0); Charlie Wooldridge( 1); Edward Horswell( 1); Chris Hyde( 6).
Limitless / Silvertown: Olivia Hutchinson(-1); Jake Rigby( 0); Michael Henderson( 4); Matias Amaya( 5).
Chester / Stobart: Jamie Thomas( 0); Charlie Walton( 2); Christian Chaves( 3); Jonny Coddington( 3).
Mad Dogs: Alan Fall( 0); Charles Cadogan( 0); Nick Pepper( 4); Pedro Harrison( 4).
White Crane: Alexie Calvert-Ansari(-1); Emma Boers( 0); Oliver Hipwood( 5); Andrew Blake Thomas( 3).
Tex8n Polo: Mindi Byrne(-1); D’ Artagnan Giercke( 1); Nicolas San Roman( 3); Vieri Antinori( 5).
Action from the Archie David Cup fi nal featuring Sladmore / Twelve Oaks and Limitless / Silvertown
Edward Horswell with the Archie David Cup
The winning Sladmore / Twelve Oaks Team: Chris Hyde, Edward Horswell, Charlie Wooldridge and Nicolas de Poligny
White Crane v Tex8n Polo in the Claude Pert Cup fi nal
Chester / Stobart v Mad Dogs in the Caterham Cup fi nal
Tex8n Polo go to goal in the Claude Pert Cup
154 guards polo club official yearbook 2017