Each winter, Casa de Campo becomes the stage for one of the Caribbean’s most refined sporting spectacles — the International Polo Season. With six manicured fields, stabling for over 400 horses, and a social calendar that draws players and patrons from Argentina to the United States and Europe, it is a season unlike any other in the region.
The Casa de Campo Polo Club
The Casa de Campo Polo Club operates six regulation fields and maintains one of the Caribbean’s finest equestrian facilities. The club offers lessons for beginners through advanced clinics with Argentine professionals, and maintains a string of well-schooled school horses for guests who want to learn the sport without traveling with their own mounts.
The Winter Season
The primary competition season runs from December through April, coinciding with the peak of the Caribbean winter. High-goal tournaments draw professional players — many from Argentina, the heartland of world polo — who come to compete and often to sell horses to the resort’s substantial community of patrons. The atmosphere around the fields on match days is genuinely festive: picnic hampers, marquee tents, and the particular pleasure of watching fast polo against a backdrop of palms and Caribbean light.
Polo and the Property Market
For a segment of buyers, the polo club’s presence is a meaningful factor in the purchase decision. Properties within easy reach of the polo fields — or with views across them — have historically commanded a premium and attracted a specific profile of buyer: European and South American families with multi-generational connections to equestrian sport who want a property they will genuinely use each winter.
Learning the Game
For those new to polo, the club’s introductory program offers a thoughtful entry point. A typical lesson begins on a practice horse (“the stick and ball”) before progressing to slow chukkers on the school string. Within a season, a motivated beginner can comfortably ride in a social match — one of the genuinely rare sporting progressions that remains accessible at any age.
