Polo Season, Costa Careyes

The exclusive beach development of Costa Careyes along Mexico’s Pacific coast has never had the same name recognition as St. Tropez - which is a good thing.

Founded by the Italian artist Gian Franco Brignone in the 1960s, this small but growing community is home to beautiful villas, bright casitas, and bungalows – all without a luxury boutique in sight.

With a distinctly different vibe than glitzier hotspots like the Costa Smeralda, the average guest tends to forego ostentatious debauchery in favor of more worthwhile activities, like polo.

Just a few miles from the beach, the Costa Careyes Polo Club offers world class facilities like two regulation Bermuda grass fields, 60 playing ponies and stables to accommodate 90 more horses.

The club’s membership includes players from Spain, Italy, Germany, and the UK and Careyes even hosted the World Federation of Polo Playoffs in 2007.

If you need to brush up on your polo rules, here is the basic idea in a nutshell: each team has four players which ride horses and use their mallets to try and smack the ball between the opposing team’s goalposts.

The club’s 2009-10 schedule kicked off November 14 and runs through April 18. This year’s calendar includes prestigious events like the Copa de l’Amistad - with legs in both Paris and Careyes, the Copa Agua Alta, and the Invitational Masters Cup.

Even if you don’t know a chukka from a withers, get to know your well-heeled fellow fans while you stamp divots during halftime with drinks in hand. It is a social sport after all.

For more information, visit: http://www.careyes.com/

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by Trafton Kenney
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