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Join us for the Cartier Queen’s Cup 2025 at Guards Polo Club, Windsor, prestigious jewel in the crown of International Polo and highlight of the English Season, with a Laurent-Perrier Champagne Reception and a delicious Three-Course Lunch with Wines in Guards Clubhouse
Dec
The prestigious Cartier Queen’s Cup at Guards Polo Club, Smith’s Lawn, Windsor Great Park is the jewel in the crown of English polo, and a quintessentially English sporting event, attracting the world’s top players and encapsulating the best of the English Season. The 22-goal tournament runs for six weeks, climaxing with the Semi-Finals and the Finals, when the late Queen Elizabeth II traditionally presented her trophy to the winning team.
Guards Polo Club is inviting our Members to attend this, the first official High Goal Tournament of the season, for the fast-paced Semi-Finals (this year on Wednesday, June 11, 2025) and the supremely prestigious Finals (Sunday, June 14, 2025).
The Cartier Queen’s Cup is polo at its best. It is always a thrilling sporting occasion—the Semi-Finals offer a fabulous day of the greatest sporting challenges; the Final offers a sensational climax, as well as one of the social highlights of the year. Players and aficionados travel across the world to be there, and we shall enjoy a full day of sport, including Grandstand seats and wining and dining, tasting the new menus created by Richard Corrigan, renowned chef behind the new culinary delights at Guards—and a chef who as a farmer’s son and an Irishman, is well known for his generous hospitality.
Of all the world’s polo clubs, none is quite so prestigious and highly regarded as Guards, nor, it seems, quite so spacious and beautifully tended—this is, after all, ‘home club’ to the Royal Family. The late Queen Elizabeth II gifted her cup to Guards in 1960 for this highlight tournament, named in the Queen’s honour and contested annually by the world’s best high-goal players and ponies. All of this means that this year’s Semis and Finals will again be a feast of sport and horsemanship—and a feast in its real sense. And our Members are invited to be there on the two best days of the tournament, with Grandstand seats for both days.
The Semi-Finals are a day of breathtaking, action-packed sport, watched by all who know and love polo, including the top international players and patrons. This is a day on which the cognoscenti choose to be there: less crowded than the Final, the atmosphere is elegant and relaxed, filled with exhilarating sporting pace and achievement as the best teams do battle for a place in the Final. Winning has never been so important! The result is edge-of-the-seat sport.
The Queen’s Cup Final is the ultimate in polo and hospitality. Clubhouse VIP guests can watch the top polo players from around the world and their superb ponies competing to win this prestigious trophy. There is no finer day in the sporting calendar and the English Season.
REGISTER YOUR INTEREST IN ATTENDING THE GUARDS POLO CLUB CARTIER QUEEN’S CUP 2025
CountryClubuk Members enjoy preferential Guards’ rates on whichever day you choose to attend. Places are extremely limited and higher categories of Membership will be allocated first, so please call the Member Services team on 020 7399 2960 or click here now to register your interest in Semi-Finals day. Or click here now to register interest in Finals Day.
All arrangements have been made to make these exciting sporting and social days smooth and enjoyable. Arrival is at the Blacknest Gate main entrance to Guards Polo Club. You will have Guards Polo Club day badges and designated car park places. The dress code is smart casual.
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¶ To extend the pleasure of the event by staying a night or two in luxury at exclusive Club rates, just call the Member Services team on 020 7399 2960.
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