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New York Blue Elephant Polo Club
Melanie Brandman is in the New York Blue team that will return for the 2009 elephant polo classic at Tiger Tops, Nepal, November 29 to December 5th, 2009.
Sunday, November 29, 2009
In the 2008 class, the New York Blue team beat the British Gurkhas team four-one. The New York Blue Elephant Polo Club was created in a bar in Anguilla.
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Two years after covering the World Elephant Polo Tournament in Nepal as a journalist, Bill Keith, Deputy Editor at Out magazine, was tippling Negronis, remembering the event. He met Melanie Brandman, 'who had a scotch and newspaper and the musk of a woman who gets things done', he says.
He recounted mountains and jungles and glorious beasts thundering in pursuit of a small, white ball. ‘I want to bring a team from New York to the tournament.’ Melanie put down her paper. Bill quickly assembled a crack team of sport enthusiasts and professional opportunists, and soon an idea became a team and the team became the mighty New York Blue.
That team today is captained by Bill Keith, and as well as Melanie Brandman it consists of Bryan Abrams; Jeff Bollerman; Josh Dean, a
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founding editor of the New York Times sports magazine Play; hedge fund trader Chip Frazier' Robert Sharp Forster, Jr; Jay Kubassek, CEO of internet marketing firm CarbonCopyPRO, a team sponsor.
Other sponsors of the New York Blue team are David Babaii for Wild
Aid organic hair products, Converse footwear, Folio real estate and Levi Strauss & Co. Tiger Tops Lodge is located in the Chitwan National Park, a 40-minute flight from Kathmandu: it is today run by Kristjan Edwards, son of its founder, the late Jim Edwards. www.tigermountain.com
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