Sarasota Polo

Welcome

Welcome to the 28

Season at the Sarasota Polo Club. Established in 1991 as the first development in

Lakewood Ranch, the Sarasota Polo Club has a remarkable legacy filled with stories of timber,

cowboys, and cold Milwaukee beer. In 1922 the Uihlein family, founders of Schlitz Brewing Company,

acquired

a 28,000

acre

timber ranch in

Sarasota.

Originally the cowboys who worked on our ranch

began playing knock

around polo games in their free time. The ranch hands

rode with stock

saddles

using make

shift equipment, knowing very little about polo, they played by their own rules. Rule #1?

The first rider to fall off their horse buys beer for the team,

naturally.

Robin Uihlein, former Sarasota

Polo Club President, ended up donating mallets, saddles, and a few polo ponies to the “cowboy

games”

it was then that things got interesting and a “real” polo club was born.

Today the Sarasota Polo Club is a premier luxury sporting destination located on 130 perfectly

manicured acres, including 45 private equestrian estates, 7 Bermuda grass fields, a half

mile horse

track, boarding facilities for 72 horses, a Player’s Clubhouse and a Polo Pavilion.

Our 2019 Polo Season marks a new and exciting era for our Club. In June 2018 James and Misdee

Miller acquired our Club. James M. Miller is an accomplished polo player and is the former

President

of the Lexington Polo Club. James competes at the Sarasota Polo Club and throughout Europe and

Barbados, most often for the Hillcroft team. Misdee Wrigley Miller is a world champion in saddlebred

show horses and is one of the world’s most accomplished competitors in Pleasure Driving and

Combined Driving. In 2018 Misdee won the United States Equestrian Team’s first

ever four

hand

team gold medal at the World Equestrian Games.