ELLERSTINA POLO CLUB

FOUNDED IN 1992

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Ellerstina Polo Club
General Rodriguez
Provincia de Buenos Aires
Argentina

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ABOUT THE CLUB

Ellerstina Polo Team (currently Johor Ellerstina for publicity reasons) is a polo team founded by Argentine polo player Gonzalo Pieres and Australian businessman Kerry Packer in 1992. Since its foundation, Ellerstina has become one of the leading and best teams in Argentine polo, having won the Argentine Polo Triple Crown twice in 1994 and 2010.

In 1990, polo player Gonzalo Pieres decided to retire from professional high goal polo after winning his sixth Argentine Open Polo Championship title with La Espadaña. Shortly afterwards, however, the Australian businessman and millionaire magnate Kerry Packer, who by then had a friendship with Pieres, proposed the creation of a polo team to compete in the high handicap tournaments of the Triple Crown. From this proposal was born Ellerstina Polo Team, which owes its name to the conjunction of the words "Ellerston" and "Argentina". Ellerston is the name of Packer's ranch in Australia and of the polo team he owns in England.

Ellerstina made its debut in the 1992 season and since then became one of the leading high handicap teams showing one of the most superlative games in the history of polo, reaching 40-goal handicap teams and twice winning the Argentine Polo Triple Crown.

Ellerstina Polo Team

• N°1 Sam Sztarkman Hand. 2 FRA

• N°2 Salvador Jauretche Hand. 4 ARG

• N°3 Juan Pedro Chavanne Hand. 5 ARG

• N°4 Alex Sztarkman Hand. 1 FRA