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VOL 2 ISSUE 8 Adventures in Luxury THE SPORT OF KINGS GIVES BACK International Pink Polo Ahmed Seddiqi & Sons Souk to Successful Shops Formula 1 fifthchukker.com & Today’s Biggest Star fifthchukkermagazine.com AN INVESTMENT APPROACH DESIGNED WITH YOU IN MIND CONTACT US AND DISCOVER WHAT WE CAN DO FOR YOU .. Chief Investment Officer, Access Private Bank, 1 Cornhill, London, EC3V 3ND, UK Email: [email protected] CIO: +44(0)203 178 3727 Deputy CIO: +44(0)203 178 3729 Access Private Bank is a division of The Access Bank UK Limited which is Registered in England. Registration Number: 6365062. Registered Office: 4 Royal Court, Gadbrook Way, Gadbrook Park, Northwich, Cheshire, CW9 7UT. The Access Bank UK Limited is authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and Prudential Regulation Authority. PRA & FCA Registration Number 478415. 62 BUSINESS PERSON PROFILE CUISINE SCENE DAVID GREENHILL 108 DUBAI President & Co-owner of Determined to determine what Satcom Direct authentic aliment in Dubai entails 112 SOUTH AFRICA ADVENTURES IN LUXURY Contents Sampling South Africa’s VOL 2 ISSUE 8 66 AHMED SEDDIQI & SONS famed foods Souk to huge success – a family GOOD BOOKS 26 BEACH POLO CUP DUBAI business grown with time 7 CHAIRMAN’S FOREWORD BOOK REVIEW Team Cadillac crowned champions Ahmed Dasuki ART IN FOCUS 116 The Occult by Colin Wilson 30 VEUVE CLICQUOT POLO The beginning of Wilson’s canon 71 MEETING MICHAEL exploring the field of the occult 9 EDITOR’S LETTER MASTERS IN SOUTH AFRICA Yasemen Kaner-White Val de Vie’s Picture Perfect World An artist in Dubai 117 Half of a Yellow Sun by Showcases the Best of Polo Lifestyle Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie LAST SEASON ADVENTURES IN SPORT A skilfully written narrative 35 LAGOS GOES BIG interweaving the horrors of the AT FIFTH CHUKKER 77 A HISTORY OF FORMULA 1 ON BEACH POLO civil war started in the late 1960’s Today’s biggest star Lewis Hamilton 10 AFRICAN PATRON’S CUP 2015 Lagos, hosted the first ever Beach Polo Tournament in Africa WORLDWIDE Title holders Fifth Chukker FEATURE SPORTS DIRECTORY successfully defended the 2014 38 US OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP DESTINATION BRAZIL 118 2015 SPORTING EVENTS Valiente finally gets vindication AROUND THE WORLD African Patrons Cup by 90 BRAZIL – A TROPICAL defeating Max Air 44 THE SPORT OF KINGS LUXURY PARADISE 121 WHO’S READING GIVES BACK Rio de Janeiro nicknamed ‘cidade FIFTH CHUKKER 16 BUSINESS PERSON PROFILE Polo clubs around the world not maravilhosa’, the marvellous HERBERT WIGWE, only provide polo matches for the city, should be your base and 125 INTERNATIONAL POLO CEO OF ACCESS BANK crowd to enjoy, but they also give starting point CLUB DIRECTORY One of Nigeria’s top five back to the community banking institutions POLO PEOPLE INTERNATIONAL 48 DAVID ‘PELON’ STIRLING Currently rated No. 3 in the world, POLO HIGHLIGHTS after Cambiaso and Facundo, the 20 ARGENTINA OPEN 10-goal Uruguayan sensation is the La Dolfina makes history with most talked about player right now back-to-back Triple Crown wins THE BUSINESS SECTION 25 10TH ANNIVERSARY 52 CHAIN REACTION CARTIER INTERNATIONAL The world’s biggest hospitality brands have Africa in their sights, DUBAI POLO CHALLENGE as the continent becomes the Held at the Desert Palm Resort latest battleground for the luxury & Polo Club hotel industry “THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE BOYZ CHAIRMAN’S FOREWORD and the men is in their toys” “be inspired to join in the adventure of the international polo scene.” s always I am delighted to welcome you all to The team at Fifth Chukker took in the international polo scene Fifth Chukker as we kick off another exciting polo starting in Argentina along with stops in Dubai and Cape Town. season beginning with the Access Bank Charity We hope that as you globe-trot with us through the pages of this Shield Tournament in May. 8th edition, you will be inspired to join in the adventure of the Needless to say our partnership with Access Bank and international polo scene. theirA commitment to the continued sponsorship of the Charity Shield Having returned to Fifth Chukker we cannot wait to welcome Tournament, which supports UNICEF projects here in Nigeria, is one you all back and show off the new amenities at the club. Here’s that we hold dear to our hearts. To know that Fifth Chukker, with the to a fantastic season, wishing you all the very best. support of so many, has been able to make a difference in so many lives over the years is not only gratifying but humbling as well. If you haven’t already heard we are delighted to announce that this year’s UK Access Bank day, on June 13th, will be held at the AHMED DASUKI prestigious Guards Polo Club! We are thrilled to be able to bring the Fifth Chukker experience to Guards. Chairman of the Board of Trustees sporty – elegant, exclusive and powerful: These three attributes perfectly describe the BRABUS refinement programme, offering a wide range of options. ...style and customise BOARD MEMBERS your BRABUS high performance automobiles to your personal demands. ADAMU ATTA, BABANGIDA HASSAN, UMARU ALIYU, AYO OLASHOJU, KASHIM BUKAR SHETTIMA Adeyanju Adelakun, Chief Executive Officer, Raumplus Nigeria Limited, 3A Karimu Kotun Street Victoria Island. Lagos. 01-2702971, 08029048000 Fifth Chukker Magazine | Vol 2 Issue 8 7 Akintoye Ojomu, Commercial Director 08069465359 [email protected] EDITOR’S LETTER s I welcome you to the eighth edition of Frances White offers a review of two very different books, Fifth Chukker, the recent trips I took with “the recent suffice to say, I myself am very inspired to seek out and read the team to Dubai and South Africa are ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’, or if you’re up for it, you could opt at the forefront of my mind. Not only trips I took for the weightier ‘The Occult’. did we watch fantastic polo, which you with the team As well as Dubai’s foodie and polo accounts, art is also canA read about within, we soaked up the diversity of our put in focus. I had the pleasure to spend time with Michael surroundings. For me, cuisine is synonymous with getting to Dubai and Arnold, an architect turned artist, in his enviable studio, to grips with a culture. Paradigms are revealed with eating South Africa found in the beautiful Bastakiya area in Old Dubai. My habits, and local produce project a habitat’s uniqueness. I exploratory experience of the creekside historical district, am thrilled to be able to share my findings of South Africa are at the takes you from his studio, to a coffee museum, fantastic and Dubai’s eateries with you. I’ve done all the hard work forefront of courtyard cafe and ending up in the oud filled souks. I’m and eating so you don’t have to, but I hope after reading my passionate about meeting as many people as possible, the accounts, you’ll be inspired to! my mind” more I meet, the more I learn, everyone has a story, and Formula One, which is naturally a current hot topic, is the tale of the Seddiqi family’s journey from a tiny souk covered here by an authority on the sport – Joe Saward, counter to a chain of successful shops, is a good example. who gives a great overriding account from its past, to its The watches found in the Adventures In Luxury section are ‘Hamilton heavy’ present. However, we are not neglecting exquisite. I was further pleased to learn that watch super our polo heroes, where this time the spotlight is on David hero Richard Mille, close friend of the family, is a polo Sterling, or as he is more commonly know - ‘Pelon’. The enthusiast. Be sure to take a look at the RM 053 Tourbillon World Wide Sports Directory will enable you to keep up to Pablo Mac Donough watch, specifically designed for his date with what’s going on round the globe in the sporting Ambassador, Pablo. Simply stunning. world, be certain to make sure you don’t miss out. If you’re In the spirit of not taking life too seriously, I hope our thinking where to go for your next holiday destination, cute customised cartoon gives you a giggle! Sam Cowie - a long-term Brazilian resident, will walk you through with an up-to-date guide on where to go and With warmest wishes, what to do. Africa is another sound option, as revealed in the Business Section, it is increasingly a hotspot for luxury YASEMEN KANER-WHITE hospitality. Make sure when you travel you pack a good read, Editor-in-Chief Editor in Chief - YASEMEN KANER-WHITE Editorial Team - TERRI M. BRENNAN, YUSUF SAAB Journalists - YASEMEN KANER-WHITE, JOE SAWARD, FRANCES WHITE, SAM COWIE, ANDREA ASHFIELD, ERNEST EKPENYONG, DARLENE RICKER, RASHEED VANGELOS, WILHEM VAN ZYK, MONICA TOMAR Photography - SHEYI AFOLABI AND TONY REMIREZ, Fifth Chukker Magazine is a publication of Fifth Chukker Polo & Country Club additional contributors credited Whilst every care has been taken in the compilation of this publication to provide Design - TONI BARRINGTON, up-to-date and accurate information, we cannot guarantee that inaccuracies will not THE MAGAZINE PRODUCTION COMPANY occur. All material presented are used in good faith and whenever possible, permissions www.magazineproduction.com have been applied for. The publisher will not be held responsible for any loss, damage or inconvenience caused as a result of any inaccuracy or error within these pages. Fifth Chukker Magazine | Vol 2 Issue 8 9 MTN AFRICAN PATRONS CUP MTN AFRICAN PATRONS CUP MTN AFRICAN PATRONS CUP After three days of furious polo action, title holders Fifth Chukker successfully defended the 2014 African Patrons Cup by defeating Max Air in a tense final at Fifth Chukker Lawns, Kangimi Resorts, Kaduna, Nigeria.