First Thoughts On Harry's POLO Show

Yesterday, Harry’s polo documentary released on Netflix. Your faithful scribe did indeed press play. I got about 30 or so minutes into a 52-minute episode. My sister was in town, so I was watching it with her. She plays polo (not at the U.S. Open level!), so I thought it would be good to watch it with someone who knows the game intimately. As soon as she saw the credits she remarked that the greatest polo player of all time was in the show—Adolfo Cambiaso. My sister saw him play when she travelled to Argentina to play polo some years ago.

We were laughing when Nacho Figueras was introduced with the byline “polo legend, and Cambiaso simply had his team’s name underneath. To be fair to the show, the episode makes very clear that Cambiaso is at the top of the sport. Figueros himself notes that Cambiaso has “won more than anyone else in the world by a mile.” But the promotion of Figueras (who is apparently a good player but whose chief achievement is being good at self-promotion and PR) was funny.

In any event, I have some preliminary thoughts.