"The Stables at Knox Polo East Aurora, NY" 2017 Program
$40
Polo and Champagne Brunch
July 23 & 24 2017
The Aurora team was founded by Seymour Knox, a member of the Polo Hall of Fame. Knox, who had a farm in East Aurora, New York, near Buffalo, bought his first polo pony while visiting Aiken in 1922, and the following winter the Aurora team made its debut on Aiken’s Whitney Field.
Seymour Knox became a skilled and dedicated amateur player, and his Aurora team included some of the top poloists of the Golden Age of the 1920s and 1930s. Aurora played in and won the best tournaments in America, including the U.S. Open Polo Championship® (1934), and they also played in England and Argentina. After Seymour (who reached a high of 7 goals) retired from high goal play, his sons Seymour III and Northrup carried on his legacy. Aurora likely made its last appearance in Aiken on March 24, 1968 when Norty (8 goals) was joined by Juan Carlos Harriott (at the time the only 10 goaler in the world), Heath Manning and Raymond Guest to contest the David Dows trophy against Aiken (Pete Bostwick, Alan Corey Jr., Alan Corey III and Darnell Boyd.) Aurora (referred to as Buffalo in the Blue Book) won by a score of 10-7.