"Slim Aarons 'Laddie Sanford At The Gulfstream Polo Club Delray' c1974 Framed Color Double Plate"
$650
Print Sz: 13"H x 14 1/4"W
Frame Sz: 14 3/8"H x 15 1/2"W
w/ custom gilt bamboo frame
Original color page + 1/4 from Slim Aarons' iconic book "A Wonderful Time" published 1974
The great American polo player Laddie Sanford was another member of the old and distinguished Palm Beach families. Slim Aarons was fortunate to get a picture during the latter part of his career at the Gulfstream Polo Club at Delray, once the winter capital of American polo. The purple and yellow jerseys of the Sanford team represent the Sanford Stud Farm and are the oldest colors on American turf.
Stephen Sanford (September 14, 1898 – May 31, 1977), nicknamed "Laddie", was an American polo champion and owner of Thoroughbred racing horses.
He was a member of the Meadowbrook Polo Club. He played on the Hurricanes Polo Team.
In 1925, he competed in the U.S. Open Polo Championship with his Hurricanes Polo Team (Pat Roark, John Wodehouse, Major Louis Beard), losing to the Meadowbrook team (Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, Thomas Hitchcock, Sr., Elmer Boeseke, Devereux Milburn). However, his Hurricanes team won in 1926, with Eric Leader Pedley, Charles Thomas Irvine Roark and Robert E. Strawbridge, Jr. He won again in 1929 (with Charles Thomas Irvine Roark, J. Watson Webb, Jr. and Robert E. Strawbridge, Jr.) and in 1930 (with Eric Leader Pedley, Charles Thomas Irvine Roark and Robert E. Strawbridge, Jr.). Two decades later, he won in 1948 (with James Larry Sheerin, Peter Perkins, Cecil S. Smith) and in 1949 (with James Larry Sheerin, Robert L. Cavanagh and Cecil S. Smith).
In 1931, his Hurricanes team (with Pat Roark, James Colt and Lindsay C. Howard) won the Teddy Miller Memorial at the Midwick Country Club in Alhambra, California against the Argentine team (Juan Benítez, Santiago Cavanagh, Luis Duggan, Daniel Kearney and Juan Reynal).