Park Place beat La Dolfina/Marques de Riscal 9-8 in the 2025 Cartier Queen’s Cup Final, and Hilario Ulloa scored the winner in the last four minutes.
Park Place won the Cartier Queen’s Cup on Sunday 15 June 2025, beating La Dolfina/Marques de Riscal 9-8 in the final at Guards Polo Club in Windsor, Berkshire. Andrey Borodin’s team had lost four earlier finals.
Guards Polo Club was founded on 25 January 1955, with the Duke of Edinburgh as its first President. It began as the Household Brigade Polo Club and took its present name in 1969.
The Queen’s Cup is the club’s leading fixture, and Cartier has sponsored it since 2012. A league season from May led to the semi-finals, played four days before the final.
Park Place opened with a 3-0 lead and led 5-4 at half-time. Poroto Cambiaso scored six of his side’s eight goals, and La Dolfina/Marques de Riscal levelled at 8-8 in the fifth chukka. With four minutes left, Hilario Ulloa took the ball from a penalty on the halfway line and ran it through to score the winner.
Laurent Feniou, Managing Director of Cartier UK, presented Borodin with the trophy. Ulloa was named Cartier Most Valuable Player, and Why Not I’m Easy, a nine-year-old chestnut mare, won Best Playing Pony.