International Polo Ball - 2007 Fundraiser
| The Newport Polo Club announces the social highlight of the summer polo season in the Northeast - the highly anticipated International Polo Ball - to be held on Friday, Aug. 3rd at the Astors’ Beechwood mansion in Newport. The annual black-tie charity gala will offer cocktails, including martinis courtesy of Grey Goose Vodka, fine dining, dancing, a live auction and musical entertainment, and special guests of honor who remain under wraps!
Limited capacity - Book Early. |
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Newport’s popular summer soiree, now in its seventh year, attracts polo players and enthusiasts from clubs up and down New England for a weekend of fun in the glamorous seaside resort. Festivities continue the following day, Sat., Aug. 4th, with a tribute match in the Newport International Polo Series, which will conclude with an award ceremony and an authentic asado lamb roast.
The gala, whose theme is a carefully guarded secret, will take place at Astor’s Beechwood, one of Newport’s grand estates along Bellevue Avenue, the legendary address of America’s finest collection of gilded age mansions.
Gala tickets are presently available for $150/person or $1,500/table of 10, for cocktails, dinner & dancing from 7:00pm-midnight, with limited capacity. (The event is a sellout each year.) Tickets can be purchased online at or by calling 401-847-7090 for gala reservations and information on the polo match and associated events. |
Co-chairing this year’s gala are Newport polo player Dave Bullis and his wife JR Bullis, who commented, “We are thrilled to organize the seventh annual gala for the greater polo community and support the NPEF’s mission with donations for its worthy charitable causes. Make your reservations and look for more details in the coming weeks.”
Proceeds from the gala benefit the Newport Polo Education Foundation (NPEF), a non-profit 501[3]c organization registered in Rhode Island with a mission to support charitable causes as well as develop training and educational programs surrounding the sport of polo. NPEF spokesman George Day adds, “We are dedicated to the endurance of this culturally-significant sport here in Newport, and we are grateful to the community for supporting Newport’s grand polo tradition. In turn, we wish to give back to the community by supporting charitable causes.” |
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The site of this year’s International Polo Ball is Astor's Beechwood mansion, built in 1851 by architects Andrew Jackson Downing and Calvert Vaux for a New York merchant. Caroline and William Backhouse Astor, Jr. bought the home in 1881, and hired architect Richard Morris Hunt to oversee a $2 million renovation and make it the social center for New York society for the next twenty-five years of the Gilded Age. Astor was the grandson of John Jacob Astor, the German immigrant who made himself the richest man in America by investing in fur trading and real estate. His wife, Caroline brought long lines of established social background to the Astor fortune and became the undisputed queen of American society, presiding over countless social activities during the eight weeks each year she visited Beechwood. The highlight of every summer season was Mrs. Astor's Summer Ball. |
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MUST BE 21 or OLDER TO ATTEND
In order to protect itself in online transactions the NPEF uses address verification to ensure tickets are sent to the credit card holder's billing address and not to another address. Please ensure you use your credit card billing address when ordering tickets or your order will be - politely - declined.
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If you prefer to order by mail, please make checks payable to the "Newport Polo Education Foundation" and mail to:
Treasurer - Jim Garner
Newport Polo Education Foundation
Fifteen Sherman Street
Newport, RI 02840
Proceeds of ball will benefit the NPEF |
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