The Club

Now 7 years later with close to 40 horses, regular tournaments, lessons and events, the home of polo on The Isle of Man moved to the new grounds at Ballacooiley, Ballaugh. The new summer polo fields boast two playing fields and a stick and ball field, and with paddocks and large turnout on site. The club is dedicated to the development of its members and its main focus is making it a safe and exciting place to learn and progress in polo. With our HPA (Hurlingham Polo Association) qualified coach Cameron, lessons are always available for the complete beginners to intermediate riders, they have a wide variety of well schooled ponies to suit anyone wanting to try their hand at this exciting sport. With the new grounds comes breath taking scenery making it the perfect place to host private engagements such as; corporate events, birthdays and weddings.

Cameron Houston is our resident coach and holds the qualification of HPA Club Instructor. He is a 2 goaler in field polo and a 4 in arena polo He has been hugely successful in various HPA low goal tournaments throughout the midlands and the north of England. Cameron was also a member of both the Under 14 and Under 21 National Pony Club Championship winning teams with the Cottesmore Pony Club. In addition, he was also a member of the Exeter University “Dream Team” who were the first and only team to win the University Championships for both the arena season at Onley Grounds and the summer season at Offchurch Bury in 2012. He was also the team captain and coach for the massively successful Leadenham Polo Team of 2013 who won 36 out of their 42 matches. Cameron has a vast amount of coaching experience, having previously coached at both Ranksboro’ Polo Club and Leadenham Polo Club.  He has taught a range of clients and groups in addition to various school groups including Oakham School, Uppingham School, Lincoln Minster School, Kesteven and Sleaford High School and many others. Cameron also has had a lot of experience coaching many teams in HM Armed Forces including The Army Reserves Polo Team and The RAF Polo Team. Cameron has a fun as well as informative style of teaching that brings out the best in all clients from 8 to 108. Cameron is also an alround horseman having produced hunters and retrained polo ponies to hunting from the family yard in Leicestershire with the Cottesmore, Belvoir, Fernie and Quorn hunts. Cameron has also assisted the Isle of Man Bloodhounds Drag hunt this season both whipping in and field mastering.

Frazer played polo for the Cottesmore Pony Club winning the under 14s national championship and second in the under 16s the following year. After leaving school he had a successful career as a national hunt jockey, riding winners for top trainers such as Sue and Harvey Smith, until suffering a career ending fall at Uttoxeter racecourse. Frazer is now a well known equine dentist with many top professional riders on his books. Frazer is an accomplished horseman having competed in Polo, Eventing, Hunting, Racing and Team Chasing completing his first open at 14 years old.