MAY 2013 | VOL 1 ISSUE 4 | N2,000 | £8 Adventures in Luxury Claire Tomlinson Polo’s First Lady Royal Polo Players !e Sport of Kings Marwan Chatila Bond Street’s Most Discreet Jeweller Sayyu Dantata !"hchukker.com !"hchukkermagazine.com Passion for polo 62 82 ContentsMAY 2013 | VOL 1 ISSUE 4 7 CHAIRMAN’S FOREWORD 32 PASSION FOR POLO Ahmed Dasuki How photographer Tony Ramirez 16 turned his passion into a business 9 EDITOR’S WELCOME Funmi Oladeinde-Ogbue 36 GINGER BAKER "e Cream drummer’s THE SEASON Nigerian polo odyssey AT FIFTH CHUKKER 38 KOLA ALUKO 10 ETISALAT AFRICAN Entrepreneur Kola Aluko PATRONS CUP on sport and business All the action from this 40 ROYALTY IN POLO prestigious event Who’s Who in today’s royal players 16 SEEN AT FIFTH CHUKKER Who’s Who in the In Crowd UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL 18 NWANKWO KANU 45 MUSTAPHA SHERIFF Fi!h Chukker’s new “I appreciate the support Charity Ambassador I have had along the way.” 20 COMMISSIONING OF 46 OSA COOKEY THE ADAMU ATTA “I have had a special bond PRIMARY SCHOOL with horses since I was a child.” "e remodelled Fi!h Chukker-funded 48 HADI SIRIKA primary school opens its doors “"e thrill of playing is so special and ful#lling.” POLO PEOPLE 50 SANI UMAR 22 GENERAL HASSSAN KATSINA “I love the thrills that go with riding.” Remembering the legendary polo-playing General ART IN FOCUS 26 PASSION FOR POLO 52 NIC FIDDIAN!GREEN Sayyu Dantata Horse sculptor extraordinaire 28 WOMEN IN POLO 56 KELECHI AMADI!OBI Claire Tomlinson’s trailblazing career Nigeria’s fashion photography genius 30 THE INAUGURAL AFRICAN PROFESSIONALS POLO DAY AT ADRENALIN POLO CLUB Mame-Yaa Bonsu’s quest to encourage new talent in London 10 76 40 90 56 POLO HIGHLIGHTS 104 HIGHLIGHTS OF THE ADVENTURES IN LUXURY LAGOS SEASON 62 Lagos International ELLA AND GABBY Polo Tournament 2013 66 "e latest Nigerian fashion house making international waves 108 HIGHLIGHTS OF THE 66 MARWAN CHATILA ENGLISH SEASON Bond Street’s discreet 118 HIGHLIGHTS OF THE jeweller to the stars DUBAI SEASON 72 ROBERTO CAVALLI 120 HIGHLIGHTS OF THE "e Italian designer eyes up Nigeria’s $ourishing fashion scene ARGENTINE SEASON 74 SNOW POLO COUNTRY FOCUS – TANZANIA High-level winter thrills in St. Moritz 126 ULTIMATE SAFARIS AND 76 BANKE KUKU MAGICAL ISLANDS London’s hottest new interior designer 136 ABDULRAZAK GURNAH 82 LUXURY LIST " SUPERCARS Zanzibar’s most famous literary son Choose your ride 22 FIFTH CHUKKER FOCUS ADVENTURES IN SPORT 140 FIFTH CHUKKER MAGAZINE 90 GOLFING IN NIGERIA Celebrating the #rst year Nigeria’s #nest fairways of Fi!h Chukker Magazine 94 EXTREME SPORTS 142 FIFTH CHUKKER Ultimate thrill-seeking for PLAYER LIST adventurous types 144 POLO TACTICS 98 WATER POLO Claire Tomlinson on keeping #t It’s like polo, but wet 150 BREAST CANCER 100 HABIBA BALOGUN AWARENESS Sporting extremes Early treatment is the key to survival 126 52 chairman’s foreword s I sit here and look out over the lawns at Fi!h Chukker, are very fortunate that Adolfo Cambiaso has agreed to play for Fi!h it occurs to me how lucky we are. It is one of the most Chukker again and I, for one, am looking forward to an excellent day of beautiful places I know and all our visitors con#rm this. polo and entertainment. "ey return year a!er year and it is always a pleasure to "is year we have welcomed new sponsors such as Etisalat and MTN, welcome them back to their home from home. who are entering our world. "e Etisalat African Patrons Cup is one AI should like to extend a warm hello to Nwankwo Kanu, the of the most prestigious in Nigeria and we look forward to many years international football star and tireless charity supporter who of collaboration. Cintron is another valued supporter and, as Fi!h has kindly agreed to become Fi!h Chukker’s %&'(/%&') Charity Chukker becomes even more recognised on the international scene, we Ambassador for wide-ranging children’s charity projects in Nigeria. look forward to bringing on board new sponsors who will partner with I should also like to thank Yordanos Teshager for her keen support of us as we expand here at Kangimi. all our projects during her year as our charity ambassador. Her unfailing We are moving forward with our plans to build on our sporting commitment to helping others was apparent to us all and we are indeed tradition by introducing more sports to Kangimi, along with conference fortunate to have had her on board. I do hope she will continue to visit facilities, corporate entertainment and events planning. Fi!h Chukker us, as we consider her one of our own. will remain at the core of our resort, but we look forward to creating an "e Access Bank Fi!h Chukker partnership has gone from strength even more exciting environment here. to strength and many projects have bene#ted from our collaboration. A Enjoy all we have to o+er this May, and we look forward to seeing you remodelled primary school funded by the Access Bank UNICEF Charity at the Access Bank Ham Polo Day in June. Shield tournament was commissioned in March and we are honoured that it has been renamed the Adamu Atta Primary School. We are very AHMED DASUKI committed to all UNICEF’s projects in the Kaduna area and we are Chairman of the Board of Trustees grateful to Access Bank for their unquali#ed support. I am delighted to recall that the #rst Access Bank Ham Polo Day last year was a resounding success. "is year the event will take place on %*th June and I am sure it will be as momentous an occasion. We BOARD MEMBERS ADAMU ATTA, BABANGIDA HASSAN, UMARU ALIYU, AYO OLASHOJU, KASHIM BUKAR SHETTIMA Fifth Chukker Magazine | may 2013 7 MAGAZINE MAY 2013 | VOL 1 ISSUE 4 Editor in Chief FUNMI OLADEINDE!OGBUE Deputy Editor OBEBE OJEIFO Editorial Director SARAH CARTLEDGE Contributors Features Writer JUDITH BAKER Polo Writer ERNEST EKPEYONG The Financial Times, the world – Brazil, HABIBA BALOGUN Design LESLEY MITCHELL Daily Mail, Hurlingham Uruguay, Argentina, Sub Editor MARTIN RICKERD Magazine, Polo Times, India, Thailand, Portugal, Polo Research YUSUF SAAB The Polo Magazine, El Belgium and of course Publisher ANCORAPOINT Ltd Grafico, Polo Mundial, the UK. Polo Today, Pololifestyle FUNMI OLADEINDE,OGBUE is co-founder and and Centauros. Tony is ADAM TAYLOR managing partner of Ancorapoint. Prior to founding qualified as an Associate Ancorapoint, Funmi worked in multinational of the British Institute of organisations such as Abacan, Shell, British American Tobacco and Nexen Inc for more than 15 years. A Habiba Balogun is an Professional Photography and covers polo in the graduate from the University of Manchester, Funmi is a organisational change polo enthusiast and loves to ride. consultant and newspaper UK, Spain, Switzerland, columnist. Her insights Italy, Argentina and OBEBE OJEIFO is co-founder of Ancorapoint and has a into Nigerian life are Dubai, to name but a few, Master’s degree from the London School of Economics. witty, observant and and works with organisers She has played a major role in developing many award- sometimes hard-hitting, and teams. winning marketing strategies for Global 500 companies Adam Taylor is the but her love of Nigeria such as BP, HSBC, AXA, HP, Linde Prudential and Business Development shines through all SunStoragetek. Obebe began riding when she was 10 at LUCY MASON Manager at Fifth the Ibadan Polo Club and has since maintained an avid her writing. Chukker, managing key passion for the game of polo. client relations and new SHEYI AFOLABI SARAH CARTLEDGE is a well-known lifestyle and Business Partnerships. celebrity contributor, whose interviewees range from After completing an presidents and politicians to high-pro#le sportsmen and International Business women. An Oxford graduate, she would like to say her Degree at Nottingham own sporting achievements are similar but, having written University he worked for about such amazing Fi!h Chukker polo players, she Morgan Stanley (London) realises she still has a long way to go. Lucy Mason is a freelance in Client Relations before journalist and online JUDITH BAKER is a travel writer and editor based in seven years International writer and editor with London. She has travelled extensively and is a contributor Commodity Brokerage to the Sunday Telegraph and other newspapers and more than 13 years’ Sheyi Afolabi is between London, magazines. She is a former Editor of Caribbean World a professional experience. She has Geneva, New York and magazine and "e Caribbean Property Investor. Her photographer based in worked across a range work has taken her around the entire Caribbean region Nigeria. He moved London, specialising in of media for Sky and including the unusual Dutch islands of Aruba, Bonaire into the sports world sports, motorsports and BBC London, and has had and Curaçao. via his work with IMG the automotive industry. the privilege of writing He endeavours to cover for fantastic charities Golf (EMEA) and is now LESLEY MITCHELL is a London-based graphic designer specialising in book and magazine design. She has events and commissions such as the RSPCA and concentrating his efforts in and around the game thoroughly enjoyed working on a publication dedicated in a creative and artistic the family support charity to such an exhilarating sport and has been particularly of polo in Nigeria. manner, using natural Home-Start. impressed by all that the Nigerian polo community is light and colour to their doing to assist those less fortunate. maximum effect. Sheyi AURORA EASTWOOD SARAH WOODS combines his love of sport YUSUF SAAB is the super-e-cient representative with the beautiful world of the Fi!h Chukker Polo and Country Club on the of photography.