Get ready for a weekend of excitement and empanadas with EL PORTEÑO GOLDEN CUP 2025 from Friday, May 30, to Sunday, June 1, at the Magenta Polo Club in Mesero.
El Porteno Golden Cup, is the polo tournament created by the Dorrego Company https://www.dorregocompany.com, the well-known Milan-based holding company led by Fabio Acampora and brothers Sebastian Bernardez and Alejandro Bernardez, which specializes in the hospitality world.
The three partners, never still with ideas, with El Porteno Golden Cup invite fans and lovers of beauty to witness an elegant sport celebrated and narrated by many royal families over the years.
From Friday, May 30, therefore, the Polo becomes live half an hour from Milan, in a competition that will have those present buzzing. It will not be difficult to be enchanted to see valiant warriors running on horseback.
El Porteno Golden Cup 2025 is a way of still celebrating a sport that in Argentina is also a way of life, precisely because of the passion that binds them to this unique discipline.
El Porteno, which began as a brand of the three most glamorous Argentine restaurants in Italy present in Milan, Rome and Porto Cervo, has therefore also won a space in a different context, approaching the more emotional nature of Argentina.
El Porteño Golden Cup 2025. The teams
Four teams presented yesterday at a press conference at the Via Macedonio Melloni restaurant El Porteno Prohibido https://www.elporteno.it/location/milano/el-porteno-prohibido/
engaged in the challenge they will play in all three days of competition:
- El Porteño by El Porteno
- Harpa Chili by Audi Lombarda Motors
- Great Oaks by Silent Pool Gin
- Magenta Polo by International World Of Flavours
- El Porteño Golden Cup 2025. The program
The El Porteño Golden Cup 2025 will begin on Friday, May 30 at 4 p.m. with the first two matches pitting the four teams against each other.
Saturday, May 31, also at 4 p.m., two more challenges to determine the final standings of the qualifying phase.
On Sunday, June 1, from 10:30 a.m., the grand finale with the first match between the 4th and 3rd place finishers of the round robin will award 3rd place. This will be followed by the grand final between the top two of the round robin phase that will award the title and the El Porteno Golden Cup 2025 Trophy. During the event, 2 special prizes will be awarded: the Gentleman’s Award, signed Exotime, which will raffle an exclusive watch dedicated to guests who stand out for elegance and style, and a prize for the most whimsical headgear, designed to celebrate originality and creativity.
- El Porteño Golden Cup 2025. Food & beverage
There will be food trucks with delicious l Argentine specialties such as: Choripan, Lomito and Empanadas signed by the staff of El Porteño.
Admission to the Magenta Polo Cup will be free for all the public
Like last year, the tournament will also be an opportunity to promote a fundraiser to benefit the “Vittorio Di Capua” equestrian rehabilitation center at Niguarda Hospital in Milan.
- A few words about the game of Polo
Building on the quality of native horses, amatch consists of a challenge between two teams, each of four riders or amazons, who wielding T-shaped bamboo wooden sticks(Mallets) gallop very fast on their steeds to vie for possession of a wooden ball – 11.5 cm in diameter – and try to send it between the two posts marking the opponent’s goal. The game is played in times called chukkas, which are seven minutes long. At the end of each, the horses are alternated so as not to exhaust them and preserve their safety.
Thanks to the handicap rule-exactly as in golf-professionals and amateurs can play together. Each player possesses a handicap, from -2 to 10, which determines their value. The sum of the handicaps of the four players determines the team’s overall handicap , which is offset, if necessary, by acquired advantages, in terms of points, in favor of the team with the lower handicap.
There are two main rules for securing horses and players: the first is the prohibition of crossing the imaginary line drawn by the ball; the second is the precedence enjoyed by the rider who first plays on this line. You may hook your opponent’s cue with your own to prevent his or her shot, and you are allowed to lean with your horse against your opponent’s to force him or her to change direction.
- El Porteno Golden Cup 2025 Sponsors
Premium sponsor will be Audi Lombarda Motori for the first time, which recognizes elective affinities with the Polo discipline both celebrate elegance, competition, sprint.
Other partners include Silent Pool Gin distributed by Velier , Us Polo Assn, the official brand of the United States Polo Association, and International World Of Flavours, which specializes in hospitality-level imports of food and wine products also from New Zealand and Argentina.
With El Porteno Golden Cup 2025 , comments Sebastian Bernandez, rider and organizer, we are also keen to promote the culture and tradition of this magnificent sport that is so popular in Argentina
