Team Valiente Wins the Piaget USPA Gold Cup®

LAKE WORTH, Fla. - March 25, 2014 - PRLog -- The final match of the National Piaget USPA Gold Cup® was yesterday, Sunday March 23^rd. The heated 26-goal tournament ended in 11-10 victory for Valiente (Bob Jornayvez, Santi Torres, Sapo Caset and Adolfo Cambiaso) over Alegria (Julian Mannix, Clemente Zavaleta, Mariano Aguerre and Hilario Ulloa) at the International Polo Club Palm Beach located in Wellington, Florida.

Bob Jornayvaz’s Valiente team stayed ahead of Alegria throughout the match but with Alegria finding ways to keep within striking distance until the very end. Valiente ended every chukker one point ahead of Alegria until the end of the first half, which left Valiente ahead 7-3. They held the lead until the fifth chukker, when Alegria brought up the score to a tie, 9-9. In the sixth and final chukker, Sapo Caset scored the two final penalty shots that decided the game at 11-10 for Valiente.

Caset was named MVP while his steed, Bob Jornayvaz’s Pipi, was named Best Playing Pony.

With this win, Valiente has captured the first two legs of US polo’s triple crown, having won the CV Whitney previously. The final leg, the 110^th Maserati U.S. Open Polo Championship® begins this Sunday, March 30, at 10 A.M.    The match will be telecast on NBC on June 21^st, 2-3 P.M. EDT.

The last team to win all three matches in the US Polo Association’s Triple Crown was Crab Orchard in 2010.

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