A letter from a HPA chief exec David Woodd announces the conclusions drawn from last Friday's Stewards meeting. This is it in full:

The 2011 Audi Polo Awards have been confirmed as being held this year on Monday 16th May, at Coworth Park.

"After five years of hosting the Awards on Park Lane in Central London, we are delighted to be able to bring Polo's premier awards evening closer to the polo community.

Further to the successful clinics of April 2010, the Egyptian Polo Federation organized a second round of Polo clinics from the 2nd through the 14th December 2010 for 30 of its 100 players.

The Spring EMag version of Hurlingham can be seen on emag.hurlinghampolo.com

POLO is about passion, aggression, adrenalin and innovation. We cover all these characteristics in the issue.

This is a very sad day for the polo community. We mourn the death of H.H.Maharni Gayatri Devi, well known as Princess Ayesha.

She was married to Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II, first 10 goal player in India, winner of high goal tournaments in England and a great promoter of Polo worldwide.

Statement from USPA Exec. Dir. on News Reports of Florida Pharmacy Admission of Error in the Medicine Dispensed to the Horses who died on Sunday

April 23, 2009 – Lexington, KY. Peter Rizzo, Executive Director of the United States Polo Association (USPA), issued the following statement about the news reports about the Ocala Franck’s pharmacy internal report findings:

“The news reports of the pharmacy admitting to wrongly preparing the medicine before last Sunday’s match is very disheartening. We have all suffered a terrible loss.”

“Today we come together to celebrate our sport with our championship matches and tonight we will come together again to mourn our fallen ponies in a memorial service.”

“We will continue to work with all the authorities to get to the bottom of this tragedy and determine definitively what happened to the horses in this isolated and unprecedented event.”

We are proud to announce that Slovak Polo Association has recently joined FIP as a full member. Ist POLO KLUB BRATISLAVA 1888.

The year 2007 is an outstanding landmark in the history of polo played on the territory of today’s Slovakia. Ist Polo Klub Bratislava 1888 follows tradition of games from Austro-Hungarian time, when basis of this sport were laid in Vienna by the prince Otto Windisch-Graetz, prince Vinzenz Auersperg, count Ferdinand Kinsky and count Gizycki on 23rd October, 1910 by foundation of the first „Reit- und Polo-Klub in Vienna“ .

One of the most important achievements to date in the fight against doping in sport has been the drafting, acceptance, and implementation of a harmonized set of anti-doping rules, the World Anti-Doping Code (Code).

The Code is the core document that provides the framework for harmonized anti-doping policies, rules, and regulations within sport organizations and among public authorities.