In the final chukker the Army scored a second, but the Navy's Royal captain struck back, setting up a seventh for OM Grant Fraser. |
From the first chukker to the last, he reads the game very well. |
By the fifth minute of the eighth chukker the score was 15-15, and the crowd was going crazy. |
He knew from many a chukker of polo that it meant that he was strung to the breaking point, ready to explode into action. |
Within a week I was playing her as a spare in the Open first game, playing her a full chukker in the second game and she never looked back. |
Ashy's victory was not however, without a price as one of the team's players was stretchered off the pitch after picking up a back injury in the fourth chukker of the game. |