HANDICAP numbers added up last weekend June at Rhone Hill in County Tyrone to what was, on paper, a sure win for Polo Wicklow in the lower league at the NIPC (Northern Ireland Polo Club) tournaments for the Inaugural Cup and LHK in the upper for the Spring Cup.

That is, however, what polo is all about: the higher handicapped teams, filled with some of the best known among amateur hitters aren’t always enough for all the silver to be going south.