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Source: Pablo Mac Donough in action wearing his Richard Mille RM 53-01.

Mac Donough playing a ‘neck shot’ at full gallop

the front side of the Richard Mille RM 53-01 Tourbillon.

In his 2008 book Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell proposed that 10,000 hours of practice are required to make someone world-class in their field. It seems likely that, when it comes to playing polo, Pablo Mac Donough has clocked up that tally several times over.

Mac Donough was born in Buenos Aires in 1982, and the sport ran though his veins. His great-grandfather James — an Irish immigrant who settled in the Pampas in the late 19th century —

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