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ABOUT THE CLUB

The Empire Polo Club is a 500-acre (202 ha) polo club in Indio, California in the Coachella Valley of Riverside County, near Palm Springs. Founded in 1987, it has seventeen polo fields and stabling and turnout for more than 700 horses making it one of the largest polo clubs on the West coast of the United States.

It hosts local, national and international matches and tournaments. In 1990 Empire Polo Club hosts the first 40-Goal game in the US and the First USPA Women’s Open Tournament. In 2013, it hosted a match between the British Schools and Universities Polo Association (SUPA) and the USPA Intercollegiate/Interscholastic. It has also hosted events for the Gay Polo League. In 2011 & 2015, it hosted the USPA Townsend International Challenge Cup.

The grounds are owned by Alex Haagen III. Since 1993, the Empire Polo Club has leased its polo grounds annually to Golden voice, a subsidiary of the Anschutz Entertainment Group., the organizers of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and the Stagecoach Festival.

Empire Polo Team

• N°1 Clément/Victoria Smith Hand. 0 FRA

• N°2 Guillermo Li Hand. 4 PER

• N°3 Tito Ruiz Guiñazu Hand. 7 ARG

• N°4 Derek Smith Hand. 1 USA