New Zealand clean up in New South Wales

New Zealand's Under 21's side defeated their New South Wales compatriots 4-0 in the recent test series held in New Zealand. New Zealand used to tour to start preparing a lot of their younger players for possible world cup slots in 2011 and it was down to two of New Zealand's most experienced polocrosse players, Tony Schraft and Shane Hill, to coach them...Read more

Kent bring in new Aussie for 2010

Kent Target will have a new Australian face in their ranks when the 2010 season kicks off, 21 year old Dan Rohan from Kilkivan. Dan is coming over to work alongside UK polocrosse legend Jason Webb from anything between six months and 2 years...Read more

New Zealand Junior and Intermediate Championships 2010

The NZ Intermediate and Junior Championships were held in Glenbrook on the 23rd & 24th January 2010, to read the full results click here

Zambia announce annual awards and new committee

The Zambia polocrosse association held their annual awards dinner and AGM on the 8th of January at Leopards Hill polocrosse club. The club house was decorated in black with silver stars and the evening featured a stunning musical horse light show...Read more

Guy goes global!

Guy Robertson has joined the online battle of the polocrosse heavy weights with the launch of his new website, www.robertsonhorsetraining.co.uk. The UK captain follows his UK team mate Jason Webb and the globe trotting farrier Uncle Pete into the online world. Jason has been online for a number of years while Pete only recently joined the world wide web....Read more

We wish you a Merry Christmas!

All the team at Polocrosse Extreme would like to wish all our readers a very Merry Christmas and a happy new year! Hopefully 2010 will be even bigger and better than the last year, we have some new exciting ideas for it (not least sending a team of reporters to Australia for the Australian National Championships, all expenses paid of course!) and we hope you all carry on reading the site so that you can enjoy them!

Another Official Apology

Polocrosse Extreme would like to apologise for not including Layla Henshaw as the winner of the Laura Millington award at the UKPA Awards ball in our recent article. Sorry Layla and congratulations on winning!

UKPA publish Annual Report and elect New Executive

On the 29th of November the UKPA published their annual report and elections were held for the various executive positions, under the new executive structure approved at the EGM a month ago. The top job of UKPA Chairman went to Eric Jenkinson, formerly a trustee and vice chairman. He is joined by Quintin Cornforth as Treasurer, Jeff Parr as Secretary and Iain Heaton as Chief Executive Officer....Read more

Official Apology

Polocrosse Extreme would like to apology for any confusion it caused by incorrectly stating, in the round up of the UKPA Annual awards, that the main league award went to Pennine. It was actually awarded to Arden, who just beat Pennine when the final positions were worked out (by us so we really should have known). However, we are strangely proud of the fact that we were so convincing that we managed to get the wrong result put onto the UKPA site as well! Sorry Arden, sorry Pennine, sorry UKPA!

Uncle Pete finds his cyber space feet!

In a move which will probably come as a shock to many who know him Uncle Pete has gone global via the power of the internet. He announced this week from his winter base in New Zealand, exclusively to Polocrosse Extreme, that his new website dedicated to hoof care and lameness had launched...Read more

UKPA Executive Nominees and Season Award winners announced

This week saw a double announcement by the UKPA. Firstly, they announced the nominees for the exexcutive committee positions, which will be elected at the AGM next week, and then at the UKPA ball they announced the winners of the 2009 season playing awards...Read more

UKPA Promotional drive moves to next stage

The UKPA off-season promotional drive seems to marching ever onwards as the UKPA follow up their demos at Blenheim horse trials and recent Sky Sports apperances with a range of new promotional documents, a subsidised starter kit offer and demos at Your Horse Live...Read More

Final UKPA and Polocrosse Extreme league positions see Arden snatch top spot

The UKPA and Polocrosse Extreme leagues have been checked, re checked and checked again to ensure that the results included within them are accurate and one key change has seen Pennine knocked off the top spot and allows Arden to claim their first league title...Read more

Western Australia and Queensland Announce 2010 National Championship's squads

Preparations are well under way for the Australian National Championships in Ballarat in 2010 and they stepped up another gear this week as both Western Australia and Queensland announced their squads for the event..Read more

UKPA ratify new constitution and declare nominations open for executive officers

The UKPA successfully ratified their new constitution by a majority vote on the 25th of October and have now declared nominations open for people wishing to stand as officers on the executive committee at the forthcoming AGM. Full details of the AGM can be seen here and the posts of Chairman, CEO, treasurer and secretary are all up for election. As yet Polocrosse Extreme has heard no firm rumours on anyone intending to stand for these roles so if you know something let us know on polo-x-treme@hotmail.com or why not disucuss it on our forum

2009 Southern Zone Champiomships - Kojonup October 24th & 25th

The Southern Zone Championships proved a happy hunting ground for Midwest and slightly less happy for Centrals as Midwest claimed 4 titles while Centrals finished as runners up in 4, losing to Midwest on 3 occasions. The hosts, Kojonup, also had a good tournament, claiming two titles and two runner up spots...Read more

Horse world hits out at Lush over their support of Hunt Saboteurs

The horse world has hit out at cosmestic giant Lush as they revealed their support for the Hunt Saboteurs Association (HSA). Lush this week launched a new product, a Fantastic Mrs Fox Soap Bar. It features a blood red fox paw print design on it and Lush have also produced a pamphlet condemning hunting as a cruel sport for foxes, horses and hounds.... Read more

Western Australia State Championships and Presentation Night
Report by Jodi Tiver

Well what a fantastic weekend of polocrosse both on and off the field! With 47 teams arriving from all over the State on Friday this was one of the biggest tournaments held in WA for quite some time. The fields and facilities were once again immaculate and the Perth Club members and volunteers are to be congratulated for their superb efforts through the entire weekend...Read More

UKPA seek to ratify new constitution

The UKPA has submitted its new constitution to its membership as it seeks ratification of it at its' EGM to be held on the 25th of October. The change in the new constitution is the restructuring of the UKPA executive committee, from the 18 voting positions behemoth that it presently is, down to just 9 voting positions....Read more

Atmosphere and fun more important than results as Holland play Norway
Report by Fleur Bartels
Playing polocrosse in incredible scenery and an amazing atmosphere

The “test matches” between Norway and Holland took place last weekend in Rauland, Norway. The Dutch and Norwegian players stayed at the riding centre in Rauland, which is located in a beautiful scenery in the south of Norway. The riding centre also provided the horses for the Dutch players. The Norwegians rode on their own horses...Read more

Northern Zone Championships - 26th and 27th of September
Report by Jodi Tiver

The first selection tournament for the 2010 Nationals and Northern Zone Championships was held by the Walkaway Polocrosse Club and with 44 teams nominated it was certainly shaping up as a big weekend. The sun shone down each day and was a bit of a shock to the system after all the cold weather and rain that hasn't seemed to stop in months! But all the horses and players held up fairly well and everyone took the chance to get some sun on those white legs...Read More

American Polocrosse fans react angrily to criticism of their sport

American Polocrosse fans have reacted angrily to an article run by the Riverfront Times News Blog that called polocrosse a "ridculous sport of the idle rich". A number of polocrosse players and fans have posted comments in response to the article which was run by the website after they received news that the American Polocrosse Nationals will be held this weekend in St Louis...Read more

Full report of the Zim Open
By Terrance Keith, Bombers Equestrian Equipment

Things got off to a start on the Wednesday – well, actually preparations for the open got off to a start long before the Wednesday but proceedings for the annual Zim Open 2009 got underway on Wednesday the 9th of September with the meet and greet black tie ball, the traditional gathering of all the players, managers, sponsors, interested spectators and family, as well as honoured guests and the few friends looking for a good partyy...Read More

Twin Pines Polocrosse Tournament
Report by Jodi Tiver

30 teams arrived to play on the river sand fields in Northam for the Twin Pines annual tournament. It was great to see that one team from Walkaway made the effort to travel south seeing that the majority of clubs from the Central Zone had been travelling north all year to play at the mid-west tournaments...Read More

Ireland show their young talent as they defeat UK

The Irish Under 21's defeated their UK counterparts in a two test match series held at Mollington in north west England on the 19th and 20th of September. The Irish looked the stronger of the two sides on paper and they didn't disappoint as they won the first test 29-11 and then the second 30-14. In each test match the UK fought very hard early on and kept the scores pretty even but then the Irish moved up a gear and ran away with the matches...Read more

UKPA show that good things come in three

The UKPA have given the polocrosse community in the UK (and possibly around the world) three reasons to be cheerful in the coming months. Firstly, they reported on the success of their recent demo at Blenheim Horse trials and followed this with news of polocrosse being on Sky Sports and of the UKPA Annual ball...Read more

Koala Park win the Zim Open

The Zim Open, probably the most extravagant polocrosse event in the world, was won by the Koala Park team, a team packed with Australian talent. the Zim Open is held every year in Zimbabwe and attracts a greta deal of corporate sponsor. The Zimbabwe polocrosse association use it to raise funds to support their international teams, this year the aim was to raise funds for the 2011 world cup team...Read more

Fourth Annual Dutch Open shows polocrosse is continuing to grow on Mainland Europe
Report by Fleur Bartels

On the weekend of the 12th and 13th of September, the 4th Dutch Open took place in Exloërveen (North-East Holland). There were 11 teams playing from Germany and Holland in 3 different categories: A, B and C. The A final on Sunday afternoon was between the teams Holland 3, with Thomas Bakker, Having Steenhuis and Marieke Smallegange, and Kananohe A from Germany, with Sascha Beck, Solveign Grage and Caren Ollenschläger...Read more

Polocrosse Continues to grow in UAE

Polocrosse has continued to thrive in the United Arab Emirates to the point were the polocrosse assoociation which has formed over there has applied to the International Polocrosse Council for Associate membership. In a letter to the International Polocrosse Council which was published of their website they explain how the sport has spread from its original base Al Dhaid, near Dubai, to another three sites...Read more

Moonyoonooka Tournament Results
Report by Jodi Tiver

Moony held their annual tournament for the season and although a little smaller compared to the last 2 years there was certainly still some good polocrosse being played! This club has put in some real effort in to improving the fields with irrigation and it has paid off with the grounds holding up well throughout the weekend...Read more

UK Nationals marred by Tragedy

The UK National Championships were overshadowed by tragedy as two horses had to be put down after breaking legs. Firstly Tina, owed by Simon Paynter of Arden, suffered a broken leg as she turned out of the line up and then Guy Robertson's Lauren Lee also broke a hind leg as she simply pulled up to a stop during a match....Read more

South Midlands Polocrosse Tournament – August 29th & 30th 2009
Report by Jodi Tiver

South Midlands club held the first tournament within the central zone for the 2009 WA season and with 42 teams nominated it was certainly going to be a big weekend! The weather didn’t look all that favourable on Friday with trucks rolling in before lunchtime, but it had cleared by Saturday morning which dawned very cold and frosty....Read more

We are looking forwards to Nationals!

This weekend is the UKPA National Championships, the main event in the UKPA calendar and polocrosse players and fans in the UK have been gradually getting more and more excited all week. It is always hard to know who will win what at Nationals, especially seeing no one, except the UKPA, knows who is definitely in each grade until about Thursday. However, with a little bit of work it is possible to make some educated guesses...Read more

Mullewa Polocrosse Tournament – August 22nd & 23rd 2009
Report by Jodi Tiver

The last real ‘outback red-dirt’ tournament was held by the Mullewa Polocrosse Club last weekend with plenty of the Mid-West clubs turning up to play. It was a little smaller in numbers than the last few but the competition was still a good standard and gave some other players a chance at the higher grades...Read more

Pony Club Championship Results

The UK Pony Club Polocrosse Championships took place on the 15th and 16th of August at Draycott House, alongside the rest of the Pony Club Championships. Entries have increased by nearly 30% for two consecutive years now and this year the number of players stood at 99. The teams played off across four different categories, based on age and also format on teams, and there was some wonderful polocrosse played. Most importantly all the players seem to full enjoy themselves as the sun shone on them...Read more

Irwin Polocrosse Tournament - August the 8th and 9th 2009
Report by Jodi Tiver

Club teams from the Great Southern and Central Zones once again drove north and reached the end of the Brand Highway. However, once there most horse trucks turned off to the right, instead of the usual left, and headed towards Mingenew for the Irwin Polocrosse Tournament.The fields were a little heavy and dusty but from all accounts the weather was fine and there was a pretty good standard of Polocrosse played...Read more

Kent make hay while the sun shines on the Midland Tournament

It was Kent's weekend at the Midland Tournament on the 8th and 9th of August, as the sun baked down on Arden's club grounds. There had been worries about rain stopping play but on the two days of the tournament the sun came out in force. The pitches were still fairly wet when play started on the Saturday and they quickly cut up. This factor, combined with the long grass on a couple of the pitches, made picking up and bouncing hard and players had to fight the pitches, as well as their opponents, all weekend...Read more

Entries up 30% for UK Pony club polocrosse championships

The UK Pony Club Polocrosse Championships will take place next weekend, the 15th and 16th of August, at Draycott House in Nottinghamshire and the organisers are reporting a big jump in entries. The entry figure stands at just under 100 players, an increase of 30% on last year and the second year in a row that entry figures have increased. The Pony Club have offered subsidised polocrosse starter kits in the last two years, with the help of the Worshipful Company of Lorriners, and many of the new entries are from the pony club branches and centres who purchased these kits. Entries are up across all classes and age groups and shows that the pony club and UKPA joint work to increase particpation in the sport is beginning to bear fruit.

Polocrosse Extreme will be at the Pony Club Championships and will bring you the results straight afterwards (well, once we get back to the office anyway!)

Midland promise that rain will not stop play!

The Midland Polocrosse Tournament Committee, effectively Arden club, have promised that rain this week will not stop the tournament and party going on this weekend at Henley in Arden in the UK. Jason Burbidge told us that he had looked at the weather forecast and though there would be rain in the week it was meant to be better at the weekend. In an additional measure Simon Paynter, Arden Chairman, sent an email around all the clubs today assuring them that Arden were not even thinking about cancelling this tournament...Read the Midland Flyer

Washout causes Welsh financial woe

The washout of the Welsh Dragons and Centaur camp and tournament last week has left the clubs involved facing a financial headache. The camp had to be called off half way through and the tournament couldn't run. Now, without the full tournament entry fees coming in, the organisers are looking at a large deficit, as a lot of the costs associated with the venue had to be incurred regardless of whether the tournament ran....Read more

Greenough Polocrosse Tournament - July 25th & 26th 2009
Report by Jodi Tiver

The Greenough Polocrosse Club held their annual tournament on a beautiful weekend in July after a little scare they might have to cancel due the large amounts of rain that had fallen recently. This was only a concern as the Northern Zone Championships and first National Selection tournament will also be held at this venue in 8 weeks time. But with plenty of sunshine during the week leading up the grounds turned out to be picture perfect with plenty of good green coverage....Read more

Bad Weather forces Welsh Dragons and Centaur to cancel joint tournament

The wet weather in the UK has forced the Welsh Dragons and Centaur Polocrosse clubs to cancel their joint tournament, due to run on the 1st and 2nd of August at Usk showground in South Wales. This is a big blow for the Welsh Dragons in particular and for UK polocrosse in general. Entries at this tournament were expected to be high and it means there is just one more normal tournament before the UK National Championships at the end of August, that is the Midland Tournament on the 8th and 9th of August. The Welsh Dragons will probably suffer financially out of the cancellation as they will have to incur costs such as site hire, despite the cancellation. The cancellation also means UK clubs have few opportunities to decide on their teams for the Nationals left.

Your Horse warns UK Polocrosse players to carry horse passports at all times

Your Horse magazine has warned the polocrosse community in the UK to carry their horse passports at all times when transporting their horses, as DEFRA are presently carrying out spot checks and handing out fines for people who don't have them on their person. Imogen Johnson of Your Horse Magazine said, "DEFRA lately had been pulling over horse lorries and issuing on the spot fines if the horses didn't all have valid passports and also if children were sat in the back of the horse lorries and not wearing seatbelts. They were recently waiting near pony club camps in order to catch a high number of people in one go".

Murchison Polocrosse Tournament - July 11th & 12th 2009
Report by Jodi Tiver

Murchison Polocrosse Club is one of the oldest clubs in WA and is located in a remote mid-west region about 9 hours north, and slightly east, of Perth with ‘outback red dirt’ fields. Even though the actual club member base is most definitely one of the smallest they certainly put on a good show every year with clubs coming from 2 hours south of Perth and travelling 2 days to play at this annual tournament...Read more

Full Results from the New South Wales Club Championships

The 2009 NSW Club Championships were held over 3 days - June 6th – 8th at Bungendore and hosted by Lake George, Canberra and Bungendore Polocrosse Clubs. There were close to 60 teams at the event and some very hard fought matches, to view the full results click here

Aviators claim the A Grade at Ashfields

While most of the attention was focused on the international test matches this weekend at Ashfields there was also a normal tournament being held and important league points to be won. However, some players obviously felt it was a good weekend to have some fun as Joel Sics put together his own dream team to win the A grade...Read more

South Africa's young guns defeat the UK on their home soil

South Africa's decision to take their youngsters to the UK rather than rely on experience paid dividends as their teams won three out of the four test matches. The UK will be disappointed that they did not do better on their home soil, and probably in the case of the ladies they should have done, but little can be taken away from a South African side which only featured 3 players over 20 years of age and featured one player making their international debut at the age of 15...Read more

UK prepares for biggest Polocrosse weekend of the year

The UK is gearing up for the biggest polocrosse weekend of the season as they prepare to take on the South African open teams at Ashfields Polocrosse club in Essex on the 18th and 19th of July. The UK and South African squads are both already on site and have drawn their horse pools for the occasion. They will spend the next four days riding their horses and preparing to face each other at the weekend...Read more

Shock as Sargeant is dropped from UK team

The UK have announced the final team to play the South Africans on the 18th and 19th of July and the only big shock in the team is the omission of Greg Sargeant from the Men's squad. The UK coaches for the test match series, Ross Turnbull for the men and Doug Webb for the Ladies, watched all the players at the Great Northern Tournament at the weekend and then named their squads based on what they had seen there...Read More

UK claim European Challenge as Polocrosse looks stronger than ever in Europe

The European Challenge took place at the Northern Racing College on the 4th and 5th of July and to welcome the Europeans the sun decided to beat down on Bawtry for the whole of the weekend. There was a high risk on sunburn for the players as the United Kingdom won the European Challenge for the first time, as last year's winners Ireland did not come over to defend their title. Not that their absence should detract from the United Kingdom's performance, they looked strong and well organised as they defeated all their opponents to lift the title...Read More

Arden win A Grade on home ground while Carrickmines take the B Grade to Ireland

The sun baked down on Henley in Arden on the 27th and 28th of June and under the glroious sunshine Arden A team played some glorious polocrosse to comfortably defeat the Highlanders 21 goals to 13 in the A grade final. The lead was greater going into the last chukka but the Highlanders came out fighting and Arden committed a couple of simple fouls to give away a couple of goals...Read more

UK versus South Africa Test matches to support Breast Cancer Charity

The test matches between the United Kingdom and South Africa in July will help support the Breast Cancer Campaign, as a fundrasing auction and a collection will be held in the VIP area on the 19th (the Sunday). This is the first time a test match series in the UK has been linked to a national charity in this way and hopefully this link should benefit both parties, with Breast Cancer getting valuable funds and with polocrosse benefiting from the extra exposure a link such as this brings. To read information on the test match series and how to book tables in the VIP area click here

To read how the Breast Cancer Campaign are promoting the event on their own website click here

South Africa's Under 23's team took on their American counterparts in a series of four test matches, firstly at Estcourt and then at Snowy River. The South Africans emerged victorious with a 4-0 series defeat but the American team were by no means disgraced as they fought hard in each test match and kept the scores respectable against the older polocrosse nation....Read more

UK teams go down battling in Ireland

After a lot of organisation and last minute changes, a Men’s and Ladies England team made it out to Cork, Ireland to play against what turned out to be Ireland’s top Men and Ladies at the wonderful grounds of Ballendinisk, hosted by the newly formed Cork Polocrosse Club... Read more

UKPA aim to add polocrosse to GCSE Syllabus

Today the UKPA's Director of coaching requested the help of the membership to add polocrosse to the GCSE PE syllabus. In GCSE PE within the UK, students have a choice of participating in a large number of sports in order to achieve their qualification. The list of sports include horse riding in various forms but as yet polocrosse is not specifically listed. UKPA Director of Coaching Christine Stansfield wants to see it added so that polocrosse players throughout the UK can gain an additional benefit from playing the sport.

To read her full letter to the membership and how you can help click on these links... WORD FORMAT and PDF FORMAT

UK Polocrosse Star gets regular blog on Horse Hero website

UK Polocrosse Player and horse trainer Jason Webb has started writing a regular blog on the Horse Hero website, which is website featuring blogs from a number of top riders and also articles, videos and picture. In his first blog he chats about the recent Kent polocrosse Tournament and Diesel's, his stallion, "showmanship", amongst other things. This new cyber space adventure might surprise friends of Webby, who probably wouldn't be the first person you would associate with blogging, but his fans will undoubtably appreciate the chance to follow his every move.

To read his first blog in full click here

New Zealand announce Intermediate team to travel to Australia

New Zealand have announced their Intermediate (Under 21) team that will travel to Australia in July to play against various Australian State sides. The team will initially play at Sconce and then travel to Coolah...Read more

In the results of the Pennine Tournament we incorrectly stated that Ashfields won the C grade, it was actually a combined Ashfields and Kent Target team. The results have now been corrected and the league updated. Our apologies to Kent Target and in particular Mr Peter Fielden, Miss Claire Rowden, Mr Ben Marsh and Mr Chris Dunlop who were the Kent players who were all part of that team at some point during the tournament!

Royal Cornwall Show demo hailed great success

The Westcountry Warriors, a newly formed UK polocrosse club, and the UKPA itself combined forces to put on a demonstration of polocrosse at the Royal Cornwall Show. The demo was hailed a great success and the crowd who packed around the main ring to watch certainly seemed to enjoy it greatly....Read more

Celyn Tournament Cancelled

Celyn Polocrosse club have regretably announced that, due to venue problems, they have been forced to cancel their tournament which was due to run on the 20th and 21st of June. They hope to hold the tournament at a later date in the year. This cancellation means that June is now a very poor month for polocrosse within the UK, with only two tournaments taking place; Kent at the start of the month and Arden at the end of it.

Kent win A grade on Home soil

This year’s Kent Tournament saw 21 teams battle it out in 5 divisions. After a week of irrigating pitches, it was typical that there was a terrible weather forecast for the weekend! However, luck shined on Kent and the Sunday was spent bathed in glorious sunshine....Read more

Highlanders get their season off to a good start at Pennine

Pennine tournament saw the Highlanders get their season off to a good start after missing the first tournament of the year at Ashfields. In beautiful sunshine at the Northern Racing College the Highlanders beat Kent in the A/B grade final to get their first win of the season...Read more

New UK Polocrosse Season kicks off at Ashfields

The new polocrosse season in the UK got underway at Ashfields Polocrosse Club in the heart of Essex. The weather was kind and the standard of play was high as over 120 players battled it out in 6 grades. With the reigning UK National Champions Highlanders absent, as most of their players were attending a wedding, it was left to Kent and Arden to fight it out for the A grade....Read more

UKPA Northern Region release details of May Training dates and for the European Challenge

The UK Northern Region have released the details and entry forms for their training on the 26th to 28th of May and also details of the European Challenge and Great Northern tournament, being held at the Northern Racing College in Bawtry. They are also asking UK players to help them by providing the horsees necessary for the visiting European teams. May Training poster; May Training schedule and Entry Form; Great Northern Tournament and European Challenge details.

Polocrosse Extreme relaunch clothing line after a closure of over four months

Polocrosse Extreme today finally relaunched its clothing line after closing it in January this year. The head of Polocrosse Extreme, a man only known as Purple Ted, said that they had closed the clothing store because they were not happy with their own products. "What we had up there was a bit confused. We had come up with some good ideas but had rushed to get them up there them up there and that meant there were things which needed improving"...Read more

UK Northern Region announce Polocrosse Extravanganza at new academy site

The UKPA Northern Region have announced plans for a polocrosse extravangaza to be held on the 26th to 28th of May at Park House Farm, Husthwaite; the site of the Yorkshire Polocrosse Academy and the newly formed club, the Kingsfield Rustlers. Christine Stansfield, UKPA Director of coaching, said "We are very lucky to have persuaded Jason Webb of Risebridge Stockhorses to travel up from Kent with his legendary stallion Diesel. In addition to this there will be demo matches, a training camp and one day tournament on Thursday." Full details here.. WORD FORMAT and PDF FORMAT

UK Juniors Fundraising Event

In order to raise funds for their forthcoming tour to Australia the UK Junior squad is holding a fundraising party at Arden clubhouse on the 16th of May. There will be a number of musicians and bands playing, including Big Agenda the band of former UK captain Jason Burbidge. For full details click here.

Australia comfortably defeated their neighbours New Zealand, 28-9 in the Quadrangular Tournament final while South Africa defeated the UK by just 1 goal to hold on to their third in the world spot and heap more pain on the UK side who failed to register a win at the tournament...Read More

Australia and New Zealand both booked their places in the Quadrangular Tournament final at the Bong Bong racecourse in New South Wales. New Zealand managed a 4 goal victory over the UK to book their place and to gain revenge for the 2007 World Cup semi final where the UK knocked them out. The pain was doubled for the UK as if they had won they would have made the final, thanks to the Australians giving South Africa a 22 goal thrashing...Read More

Scores of Confusion at the Quadrangular Tournament

There seems to be quite a bit of confusion about the exact scores happening at the Quadrangular Tournament. The Polocrosse Association of Australia have recorded on their website that the UK lost to South Africa on day 1 by 18 goals to 15 but on the Buradoo website, the host club, the score is stated as 18-13. Also both these websites state that the UK lost to Australia by 21 goals to 13, however we have now heard from 4 separate UK players that they only lost by 6 goals. When we find out the truth we will let you know! Lets hope someone knows because if the UK beat New Zealand and Australia beat South Africa it all comes down to goal difference!

Official Apology

We incorrectly stated that New Zealand lost to Australia by 15 goals, we have since discovered it was only 14 as they went down by 25 goals to 11. We would like to apologise to New Zealand for underestimating you, the New Zealand fans for causing them slightly more pain than was necessary and to the Australian fans for getting you slightly more excited than you deserved to be. To all of you, sorry!

New Zealand have revenge on South Africa; Australia record a hard fought win against the UK

New Zealand kept their tournament hopes alive by defeating South Africa by just two goal at the Bong Bong racecourse in New South Wales while Australia marched onwards towards the final, beating the United Kingdom by 21-13....Read more

Australia and South Africa both win on day 1 of Quadrangular Tournament

Australia beat their neighbours New Zealand by 15 goals and South Africa overcame the United Kingdom by 18 goals to 15 on the first day of play at the Quadrangular Tournament in New South Wales, Australia. Australia were widely expected to win against New Zealand (and are indeed expected to win the tournament overall) while the UK versus South Africa Match was always expected to be close...Read more

Queensland Dominate Barastoc Interstate Series

Queensland picked up four of the five titles on offer in Barastock Interstate series, which took place at Morgan park, Warwick on the 3rd to the 6th of April. Queensland picked up the Men, Women's, Under 21's and Juniors titles and finished second in the Masters competition, which was won by New South Wales.....Read more

Polocrosse starts in the United Arab Emirates

Polocrosse has started in a new country, with word coming from the United Arab Emirates that a group of polocrosse players originally from other polocrosse nations have started playing out in the United Arab Emirates and are looking to grow and promote the sport there....Read more

Draw for Quadrangular Tournament announced

The draw for the Quadrangular Polocrosse Tournament, taking place between Australia, the UK, South Afric and New Zealand at the Bong Bong racecourse in New South Wales from the 16th of April, has been announced. The defending world champions, Australia, will start the campaign with a match against their local rivals New Zealand and then the UK play South Africa.....Read more

New Polocrosse Centre to open in Cheshire

A riding centre in Cheshire will become the first one in the county to offer polocrosse. Mobberley riding school is working in conjunction with Celyn Polocrosse Club and the UKPA to offer polocrosse to more people. The Cheshire Polocrosse Centre is holding its first polocrosse day on the 6th April...Read more

VOSA Driving Announcement threatens to make polocrosse in the UK even harder to get to

An about turn by VOSA (the Vehicle Operator Services Agency) within the UK could make it even harder for polocrosse players to get to their beloved sport. This week VOSA confirmed that the regulations restricting driving hours would affect people who drive private horseboxes over 7.5 tonnes. The regulations, which were bought in 2006, mean that drivers of large horseboxes have to take weekly rest periods of either 24 and 45 hours from work after they have completed six daily periods of work in order to drive within the law...Read more

"Sausage Pony" prompts Numerous 999 calls

A pony with short legs and a long body has caused numerous people to call the emergency services in the mistaken belief she is stuck in the mud. Hampshire fire crews were last alerted on Tuesday as Mayflower was grazing by the River Test in Southampton. An animal rescue expert said Mayflower seemed to be a cross between a Shetland and a New Forest pony, making her look like a "sausage-dog horse". To read the full story on the bbc website click here

UKPA request its members to help Sport England survey and report on success of Under 21's horsemanship prize

The UKPA has requested that its members take part in a Sport England survey designed to establish what is important to people when they take part in sport. The UKPA chairman Dave Brookes said that this was a great opportunity for the membership to help their sport, as the results of the survey can influence areas such as Sport England planning and funding. He added that at the moment Sport England purely want you to register a few details and it should only take a couple of minutes. To register for the survey click here. To read the full UKPA chairman's statement on the survey click here.

In other news the UKPA, in conjunction with Australian Horse training, report on the success of the Under 21's Horsemanship prize...Read more

New Zealand announce 12 personn squad to compete in Quadrangular

The New Zealand Polocrosse Association have named a 12 person squad for the Quadrangular Tournament to take place in New South Wales in April. The squad includes five of the players who represented their country at the last world cup and also a few other familar names...Read more

UK suffer triple blow to Quadrangular hopes

The UK polocrosse team's hopes of success in the Quadrangular tournament, taking place in Australia in April, have suffered a triple blow as Beth Peaker, Hamish Michael and Lucy Shell have withdrawn from the UK squad. The UK's long term squad development plans have also been damaged by the news that Beth Peaker now intends to move to New Zealand and try and stake a place in their National team....Read more

New Zealand Juniors beat New South Wales side in Juniors match at Otorohanga

A New Zealand Junior side overcame a New South Wales Maitland team in hard fought encounter at Otorohanga in New Zealand. NSW lead early on but New Zealand fought back to win by 11 goals to 9. To read the full article on the match and also on the dosmestic New Zealand Junior and Intermediate polocrosse Championships click here

New Zealand announce 33 man Quadrangular squad and Australia name Junior team to face South Africans.

The New Zealand Polocropsse Association have named a 33 man squad, from which they will pick the final 10 who will travel to Quadrangular tournament in Australia in April. The squad includes former UK players Beth Peaker, Rick Murray and Gemma Murray.
Australia have named their 10 strong under 16 squad who will face the South Africans Juniors when they clash in April, in a junior test series running alongside the quadrangular tournament ...Read more

Battle of Roses rejoined as UKPA announce first two Polocrosse Academies

The UKPA have released a press statement announcing that two new Polocrosse Academies, one in Yorkshire and one in Lancashire, will be holding taster days over the coming months. The idea of polocrosse academies is to allow more people to play polocrosse, by giving them a set venue where the sport is available for them to have a go at....Read more

New Hartpury College study investigates injury types in polocrosse ponies

A new study is looking at the type and prevalence of injury in the polocrosse pony. Hartpury college student Megan Hibberd is investigating the matter as part of her degree. She said that "Currently there is a severe lack of research into the sport of polocrosse, something which needs to be addressed if the sport is to progress and expand. This information could enable preventative measures to be employed, regarding management, fitness and training programmes used within the sport of polocrosse." In order to research this matter she has produced a questionaire for people to complete and return to her. Megan said, " This research can only be carried out with the help of polocrosse players from all over the world, so please if you can find the time to complete it then I, and your polocrosse ponies, will be very grateful".
View the questionaire here

Australian Polocrosse Association launch new promotional Video

The Australian Polocrosse Association have launched a new Polocrosse promotional video to encourage more people to take up the sport. The 8 minute video has been placed on Youtube. It is a video designed to show both the sport itself, its history and also the social side of the game. It features footage from the Australian National Championships and also old, black and white photographs from when the game was first conceived in the 1930's. To watch it click here.

Polocrosse horse featured on Retraining of Racehorses webiste.

Spooks, owned by Neil Smith, has been featured as the first polocrosse success story on the Retraining of Racehorses website.To read the full article click here.
The Retraining of Racehorses Organisation has pledged to sponsor a prize at the UKPA National championships for the best retrained racehorse playing polocrosse. They already sponsor similar prizes in other horse disciplines. In order for your horse to be legible it has to be registered with the ROR organisation. If you know your horse is an ex racehorse then click here to register it on their website. If you want to check if your horse has raced then click here.

UKPA Coaching commitee release UKCC information

With the introduction of the UKCC as a nationally recognised sports coaching qualification, the UKPA is intending to run coaching courses to allow its members and coaches to become UKCC qualified polocrosse coaches, (which will put them on the same level as coaches in other equestrian discliplines). The following document details the pre requisites and other details of the UKCC level 1 and level 2 coaching qualifications. If you are interested in doing your UKCC polocrosse qualification then you should read the following information and contact the UKPA coaching director Christine Stansfield with any questions:
Coaching Information - WORD FORMAT and PDF FORMAT

Outgoing American President states concern over lack of membership participation

In the latest edition of "Off the Racquet", the American Polocrosse Association's newsletter, the outgoing president Nick Cheesman said that "the lack of interest and participation in the serving the APA is concerning". He says there are plenty of ideas coming forwards as to how the association can better serve its members but now is the time for the members of the association to stand up and play their part...Read more

South Africa have announced their full squad lists for the two competitions that they will play in 2009. They have named an eight man squad to travel to Australia to compete in the Quadrangular Tournament in April and a sixteen man squad to come to the UK in July to take on the UK mens and ladies squads...Read more

2009 UKPA Membership forms now available

To renew your UKPA player and club membership go to the UKPA site and download the relevant forms, click here

Australia announce Junior Bootcamp Squad for 2009

The Australia Polocrosse Association has announced a squad of 28 juniors who will attend a polocrosse boot camp in order to allow them to select a final junior squad to face the South African Juniors in 2009. The two teams will clash in early April just before the Quadrangular tournament takes place in Australia...Read more

The Retraining of Racehorses Organisation looks to sponsor UK polocrosse

The Retraining of Racehorses Organisation has pledged to sponsor a prize at the UKPA National championships for the best retrained racehorse playing polocrosse. They already sponsor similar prizes in other horse disciplines. In order for your horse to be legible it has to be registered with the ROR organisation. If you know your horse is an ex racehorse then click here to register it on their website. If you want to check if your horse has raced then click here.

Ashfields announce winter training dates

Ashfields polocrosse club have announced their winter training dates, to be held in the new indoor school at Ashfields from the 4th January. For the details click here and for the entry form click here

Brothers (in law) to clash as Australia Announce Quadrangular Team

Australia have announced their team for the Quadrangular tournament taking place at Bong Bong Race course, Boural, New South Wales and in doing so have pitted former team mates and relatives against each other...Read more

World cup Horse commitee appointed

A committee had been formed with the responsibility of finding enough good polocrosse horses for the World Cup 2011, which is taking place in the UK. They are Jason Webb, Guy Robertson, Wayne Henning, Rick Murray and Penny Webb as Secretary....Read more

UK Under 21's work on their fitness

The UK Under 21's Polocrosse squad have been working on their fitness in Huddersfield in preparation for the 2009 season, to read the full story click here

Ashfields awarded UKPA Nationals 2009

As well as hosting the 2009 test matches against the South Africans Ashfields polocrosse club will also be hosting the UKPA Nationals in 2009.

This latest piece of news rounds off a busy off season for Ashfields, who have grown considerably as a club since the end of the 2008 playing season. They have signed a number of players from other clubs, including a number of A/B grade players in order to run out a top grade team next year. They have also said they are bringing in Shane Neil from New Zealand to coach and play for them. They have also renamed their club (from Western Phoenix), launched their new website and redeisgned their logo.

Ashfields hosted the Nationals in 2007 and hosted two of the test matches against the Australians in 2008. For the official Ashfields website, click here

New UKPA website launched for Quandrangular Tournament

The UKPA have added a new website to their existing site in order to promote the quandrangular tournament taking place in New South Wales next year and the UK team that are flying out to take part in it. From it you can things you have always wanted to know about the UK players; for example we learnt (much to our surprise) that Greg Sargeant's best night out ever did not take place in the Arden clubhouse! To find out where it did actually take place and to find out much much more then click here

First ever chairman of the IPC dies

Max Walters, the former chairman of both the International Polocrosse Council [IPC] and the Australian Polocrosse Association, passed away on the morning of the 23rd November. He had been suffering from cancer for a while, and in fact discharged himself from hospital in order to attend the World Cup in 2007.
Max was very much the 'Grandfather' of Polocrosse, and had been Chairman of the Australian Polocrosse Association for many years, before Peter Crawford took over. Max was also the first Chairman of the IPC, and held that position for many years.
He has been a great supporter of UK Polocrosse over the years. The UK polocrosse association and the Polocrosse community internationally have lost a great and dear friend.

UKPA AGM results in new Executive structure and a number of new faces

The UKPA AGM took place on the 22nd of November and has meant a number of major changes for the UKPA executive; a new executive structure, a new vice chairman, a new chief umpire, two new trustees, a new director of coaching and a new secretary...Read more

Read the UKPA 2008 Annual Report, complete reports from all the UKPA executive officers and the financial results for the year...click here