Laddie Sanford, Well Known Polo Star And Society Sports Man, Pictured On The Palm Beach Golf Course c1943 B&W Photo
$150
Mr. Sanford is almost as adept at the links game as as he is when astride a horse with a polo mallet in his hand.
8 1/2" x 6 /2"
Dated: 1-28-33
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).
Beyond polo, he also went to horse races and fox hunts He took up fox hunting while he was a student at Cambridge. In 1923, his horse Sergeant Murphy won the Grand National in Liverpool, becoming the first American-owned horse to do so.