Sporting I i Il owever bad a recession gets, there are
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always some who can afford not to stint on their favourite toys Take rival multimillionaires, media tycoon Kerry Packer and Swiss banker, firs Schwanenbach for example. whose personal feuding takes the form of sponsoring posh polo teams at a cost of more than Elm a year each.
The two kings of excess ad no corners on the pony transport. Packer bought a Leyland Daf 95/350 cab to pull his 16-horse box. When his son Jamie decided he wanted to play too, another cab appeared in the stable yard And to accommodate the spare ponies, another Daf painted with the black logo joined the team. From his mansion in Henley, Schwanenbach commissioned an artist to design a special kgo for his first Volvo horse box. Pleased with the result, he bought another one.
They came together at Polo's top event, the Coivdray Gold cup. Schwanenbach had left some polo gear at home, so sent his helicopter back from Midhurst to Henley to fly it over A wasted journey as it turned out since Packer's Ellerston team won on the day
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