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Gerald Barnard Balding Sr.

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The Gerald Balding Cup is held annually at Cirencester Park Polo Club in his memory. In the 1920s he played in England, America and India. In 1930, 1936 and 1939, he played for England against the US for the Westchester Cup and was field captain of the English team in 1939. He was a brilliant striker
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Mr. Balding, along with his brothers Barney and Gerald, played polo in the United States throughout the 1920s and 1930s, mostly at the famed Meadow Brook Club in Westbury on Long Island, then the national center of the
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since 1939. Of the state of polo in England in the 1930s, he said, "Polo is not taken so seriously as in America or Argentina."
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of the ball and was rated as one of the finest players ever seen.
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Gerald Barnard Balding, Sr.
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Leicestershire
Ivor Godfrey Balding
John Barnard "Barney" Balding
Gerald Barnard "Toby" Balding
Ian Balding
10 goal polo player
Clare Balding
List of significant families in British horse racing


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