Michael Sifton

After a dormant era in polo following WWII, Michael Sifton worked tirelessly to help rebuild and further Canadian polo. He founded the Toronto Polo Club in 1959 and served as its president until 1992, helped form the Canadian Polo Association, and operated a polo school for over 30 years. An advocate of intercollegiate polo, he coached teams that won the North American Interscholastic and Intercollegiate tournaments. Internationally, he was a strong advocate for Canadian polo in the FIP. At home, he organized and led the Polo for Heart Tournament and raised more than $2 million for Toronto’s Heart and Stroke Foundation. He was a USPA Governor at Large for many years and has been honored as one of the “Polo Pioneers” of Canada.