About Iridike Polo

The Story of Iridike Polo

The name Iridike came from the name of the beloved horse of Marina, the wife of Luciano Irazábal, owner of IRIDIKE SL.

Together, they founded the brand and company, IRIDIKE SL. It all started with a leather good business from Uruguay as well as the sale and laon of polo ponies. Later on, they decided to dedicate themselves to the educational side and created a polo school.

Luciano, visionary saw the growth of this sport and decided to dedicate himself to his business. After the creation of a polo school, he looked for new polo venues to add to his scope in order to offer more polo activities and services.

  • a club dedicated to the equestrian activities,
  • a Polo Farm where polo holiday can be organised for any riding experience, 
  • another club and fields in Sotogrande where low goal tournaments can be organised all year long. 

 

Play polo at Iridike

Our clubs are located near Sotogrande, in South of Spain in an area known as the Little Argentina. 

Today if you want to play polo with ys, here are your options:

A Polo Farm located 25 min from Sotogrande. This is a beautiful Andalusian Hacienda which combines all equestrian and hospitality equipments. The Polo Farm facilities are composed of 3 independent villas where we welcome our polo guests. 

Another club of high competition, the Club of Iron Bridge. With 3 polo fields, more than 80 boxes, this venue became the center of the organization of low goal polo, with tournaments every week during Sotogrande Polo high season.  

About Luciano Irazabal

From his young age, Luciano has always been passionate about horses. He studies vet at the University of Montevideo and in 1999 had the opportinuty to travel to Europe for work.

In 2000, Luciano traveled to England to train Mark Keegan’s horses who had a polo breeding program. With Mark, Luciano started travel to Irlande to buy more English thoroughbreds that he could bring to Spain and train in the winter.

Luciano then decided to import horses from Uruguay, initially by ship and then by plane to sell and hire them to clients from all over the world, who came to Sotogrande looking for horses to play with.

In 2006 Luciano started his own project with his cousin. They are the founders of PONY DEL SOL, a company which trains and prepares horses from Uruguay to go play in the UK.

In 2007, in Inglesham Polo Club 47 of their horses were auctioned and in 2008 in Fifield Polo Club 30 were sold.

In Sotogrande

After these successful years in the North of Europe, Luciano moved to Sotogrande where he took the head of a polo school.

Hoy Iridike Polo tiene su sede en 2 ubacaciones: La Finca Tres Rosas Polo Club y el Club de Polo de Puente de Hierro.

Equipment

In Iridike Polo Farm & Iron Bridge