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March 2024 | East Gippsland News Weekend

Historic polo continues In the hills at Cobungra Station, a polo match between old rivals will take place for the 36th time on Easter Sunday - the Dinner Plain Polo. The Geebung Polo team, comprising slickers, defeating them 4-3 in the 2022 event and will be hoping to achieve something similar this year. The 2022 match was dedicated to the late Ken Connley, with his son, Chris, and nephew, Joe, riding for the winning team. running polo match in Australia”. Mr Castran said the late media magnate, Kerry Packer, ran his annual polo match at Centennial Park in Sydney for 22 years, but it ceased upon his death. provided by Lloyd’s of London. Mr Castran expects 3000 people to attend this year. With an alpine back drop and loads of entertainment and food and drink options, it’s a really unique way to

inspired by Banjo Patterson’s classic – “It was somewhere up the country in a land of rock and scrub, that they formed an institution called the Geebung Polo Club”. There will be local food and drink vendors, and family-friendly activities such as an Easter Egg hunt and a sprint race.

spend time in the High Country. The event was founded over a few drinks in the Dinner Plain Hotel and

mountain cattlemen and women, stared down their opponents, Cuff n’ Collar, a group of Melbourne city

High Country polo will be played again this year at Cobungra Station with public liability insurance being

Real estate tycoon, John Castran, for the city team, said “It’s the longest