Lewis Lacey

Lewis Lawrence Lacey was a Canadian polo player, born in Montreal on 17 February 1887, the son of a professional cricketer. A British citizen by birth, he served for England in the First World War and then returned to Argentina to pursue polo. In 1915 he won the Argentine Open and became Argentina's second ten-goal player, and between 1915 and 1937 he won that tournament seven times. He won the United States Open in 1922, captained the English team in the International Polo Cup in 1924 and 1930, and was chosen to play for Argentina in the 1928 Cup of the Americas. He sold a polo pony for a record 22,000 dollars in 1928, wrote essays on polo, and was inducted into the Museum of Polo and Hall of Fame in 2010.