Rancho Poquito just got some good news. Rene’, pictured above (trying to run over me since I was blocking the goal!), had her United States Polo Association Handicap raised to 1 Goal. I won’t go into a lot of detail on the handicap system, other than handicaps are based on ratings of one's peers, more information can be found here. This is a respectable rating for any polo player. Currently of the over 3,000 USPA members, less than 33% of the members carry a rating of 1 goal or more. I couldn’t break down the numbers by gender, but I know that only a handful of women ever surpase a 0 goal rating. We at Rancho Poquito are very proud of Rene’ for achieving this goal, this is a very nice honor.

Also, a shout out to our buddy Andy Towell, who has a cool website showing lots of polo photos.

Congratulations.

Here at Rancho Poquito, our dreams have finally come true, after only 9 years. We found an elk antler out in the far pasture. We have elk come through the place form time-to-time, but have never found antlers in either our pastures or our woods. The antler was likely shed this last winter, right after the rut. We are now debating on what to do with it. In the short term, it’ll be “show and tell” fodder. Longer term, we’ll either mount on our porch, or turn into a cool set of steak knives.

Cheers,