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Mark 4 claims Argentario Polo Club's final summer event of the season

Summer Cup 2011 brings Italian venue's season to a close

Mark 4 claims Argentario Polo Club's final summer event of the season

Seven teams have been taking part in the Summer Cup, the Argentario Polo Club's 2011 season-clsoing tournament which began on Wednesday, August 10th.

The qualfying matches took place until Saturday 13th, with Mark 4 and Islan, both undefeated until then, made it to the final.

Sunday 14th was the final's scheduled date, and this marked the first time that two foreign teams played one of the club's finals. Mark 4 is a Swiss-based team, while the Islann team is from the United States. Mark 4, aided by a great performance from Pedro Fernández Llorente, were the undoubted victors, defeating their rivals quite comfortably, 12-5.

Pedro Fernández Llorente was the top scorer in the tournament, with a tally of 24 goals.

Summer Cup

Results:

Wednesday, August 10th

La Ginevra Polo Club 9 vs. Monte dei Paschi di Siena 7 1/2

Thursday, August 11th

Argentario Polo Club 3 vs. Islan 10

Relais Le Jardin 3 vs. Granducato di Toscana 5

Friday, August 12th

Argentario Polo 6 vs. Relais Le Jardin 12

La Ginevra Polo Club 6 vs. Mark 4 7

Saturday, August 13th

Mark 4 13 vs. Monte dei Paschi di Siena 5 1/2

Islan 8 vs. Granducato di Toscana 6

Sunday, August 14th

Final

Mark 4 12 vs. Islan 5

The Teams:

Argentario Polo Club

Irene Gianni -1

Giacomo Galantino 1

Alberto Galantino 2

Esteban Iturrioz 4

Total: 6

Islan

Christine Evans -1

Federico Riege 0

Paolo Grillini 2

Santiago Novillo Astrada 5

Total: 6

Relais Le Jardin

Roberto Marraffa -1

Boris Bignoli 1

Stefano Ottaviani 2

José Ortíz 4

Total: 6

Granducato Di Toscana

Roberto Marraffa -1

Stefano Poli -1

Sebastián Bernardez 1

Goffredo Cutinelli 3

Juan Martín Gerstle 3

Total: 6

La Ginevra Polo Club

Ginevra D'Orazio -1

Luca D'Orazio 1

Franco Piazza 2

Juan José Storni 4

Total: 6

Mark 4

Giulio Franco Turati -1

Mark Haenni -1

Oscar Carona 2

Pedro Fernández Llorente 5

Total: 6

Monte dei Paschi di Siena

Francesco Palestrini -1

Ugolino Bourbon 0

Therence Cusmano 2

Martín Orozco 3

Total: 4

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The Argentario Polo Club is located in Tuscany at Monte Argentario, one of the most beautiful seaside resorts in Italy, with a coastline characterized by rocky beaches of extraordinary beauty. The Club is in an exceptional position, the polo fields and stables are located in the typical Maremma landscape, with splendid sea views, bordering the new 18 hole golf course. From its inception, in 1987, at the Argentario Polo Club some of the best Italian polo matches have been played, making it a centre of sporting excellence; many great polo players have passed by: Gonzalo and Horacito Heguy, Alejandro (Piki) Diaz Alberti, Santiago Araya, David Sterling, Juan Martin Nero, Juan JosBran Agustin Garcia Grossi, Alfio Marchini and BartolomCastagnola. The passion for this sport and the good maintenance of this polo field, recognized as one of the best in Europe, have made the Argentario Polo Club the place of reference for Italian polo, recently the sporting organization can boast various Italian and European records: the 1st edition of the Ladies Polo Cup, the first women's polo tournament to be played in Italy, (the 2nd , the 3rd and the 4th edition Pellicano Ladies Cup, was sponsored by one of the best Relais & Chateaux hotels in the world, Il Pellicano Hotel), was the first in Italy to organize junior tournament (10-15 year old) and also the first in Europe to have organized an 18 hp tournament at night (on occasion of the XX? anniversary of the Club 2007) every year for the Coppa Italia F.I.S.E. and the Summer Cup there is an Italian record of enrollment teams, second only to Sotogrande. The white polo ball started to race on the Club fields with the spring tournament, the Silver Cup, the event that every year initiates the high level tournaments in Italy. But it is between July and August that the Argentario becomes the host of polo with a succession of events of great sporting and social importance. Since last year the real point of excellence is the Ladies Tournament, (the women's tournaments are having a big success in the world), the Argentario Polo Club wanted to promote this initiative also in our country, which does not lack women players. The great success received in the first edition of the Ladies Cup has made it possible for all the editions to enter the WCT (women's championship tournament), the most famous women tournaments in the world. Also for the 4th edition, The Hotel Pellicano, one of the most famous in the world, has united its name to this exceptional event. The Pellicano Hotel and Argentario Polo Club have a partnership since the beginning: both are symbols of excellence in their fields and their presence and activities on the territory give value to a destination that is already famous. The sporting and elegant environment gives to this corner of Maremma an amazing atmosphere of English-South American style.