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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 <http://nycelepolo.com/>was

created in a bar in Anguilla.

 

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 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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