Magazin

Originally known as Magasin, this liver chestnut stallion was owned and played by Delmar Carroll for 13 years, and won the Hartman Trophy at the U.S. Open in 1972. Sired in Argentina, Magazin was bred for thoroughbred racing rather than polo. In fact, Michael Phipps bought and raced Magazin until the age of 5. But when Del Carroll showed an interest in the horse, Phipps proposed an unusual challenge: Carroll could have Magazin if he could make a polo pony out of him. Magazin took to polo like a duck to water, and the rest is polo history.

“Del gave 110 percent on the field, and his horses had to give 150 percent,” remembers Tommy Wayman. “Magazin gave his best effort every time.”

Magazin was born with great conformation, possessed a natural ability to play polo, was quiet and even-tempered. “He did everything well,” noted Kathy Linfoot, Magazin’s first trainer. “Speed, durability – he could go through two chukkers easily and be ready for more. Magazin was such a natural all I had to do was stay out of his way.”

Magazin made an impression off the field as well. “Everyone knew him. He was ‘Mr. Personality’. If you rubbed his face he would stick his tongue out. Every morning he would whinny until I fed him.”

Magazin’s disposition was remarkable not only for a stallion, but for any horse. Robin Carroll Bostwick recalls, “At Christmas time, when Mags was turned out at my dad’s farm, I would get him straight out of the pasture and ride him bareback through fields and by the mares, without a problem; he was such a one-of-a-kind angel.”

Watercolor portrait of Magazin (Top Photo) by artist, Melinda Brewer; www.poloart.ca