Victoria is a top-ranked woman polo player worldwide with a mixed US outdoor handicap of 3 goals (UK: 2 goals).

Having coached polo for over 35 years, Victoria focuses on introducing newcomers to the sport to watch polo or learn to play and helping existing players to improve their game. With a key focus on polo riding, the polo swing and game theory, Victoria enables existing players to improve their accuracy, precision, power and understanding of team tactics and positional plays out on the ground.

Victoria started playing polo when she was 9 years old and was selected to represented England at 17 yrs, when she captained the U21 team to the East Coast of the U.S., winning 7 out of the 8 matches they played. Victoria continued to play polo as an amateur player and then professionally, competing at the highest levels of the sport and since then has competed around the world.

After graduating from Bristol University with a Bachelor of Science, Victoria decided to make a career in polo and alongside her father Peter Grace OBE, she co-founded Ascot Park Polo Club, in Surrey, UK. As managing director for 25 years, Victoria focused on the growth and development of the polo club and the training centre, which she grew to become the largest training centre in the world for polo, teaching over 2,500 people each year how to play polo and improve their game.

Victoria was vice-chairman of the International Women’s Polo Association whose prime aims were to encourage and promote more women to learn to play polo worldwide and help them improve their game.

Victoria pioneered and established the Corporate ‘Learn to Play’ polo and ‘Have a Go’ unique events for the hospitality and team-building industry in the UK.

Victoria currently divides her time between Sheridan, Wyoming, US and London, UK.

Victoria’s father, Peter Russell Grace (1938 – 2013), was awarded an OBE (Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) for services to polo. An OBE is an order of chivalry established in 1917, recognising merit, gallantry and service. Honours are given to people from all walks of life and all sections of society who have made a difference to their community and played a distinguished role in their field. The OBE award to Peter Grace is unprecedented in history, being the first honours awarded to a figurehead of polo.

Peter was the author of the book “Polo”, with a foreword by King Charles who wrote that “Peter is generally regarded as one of the best instructors that there is in polo”.

Victoria is one of four sisters, who were known as “The Amazing Graces”, when they competed as the only all-sisters polo team in the world.

In 2009, three generations of Graces played in ‘Polo in the Park’, London, when Victoria and her three sisters played against their father Peter Grace and her nephew Maximillian Nastasi-Grace in the “Battle of the Sexes”.

Polo has been part of the Grace family for generations. Margarita Celia Grace was married to John Shaffer Phipps (1874 – 1958) and their son Michael Grace Phipps achieved a 10 goal rating and competed at the highest level, including the Westchester Cup, US vs UK, in 1936 and 1939. Michael’s granddaughter, Cecelia Cochran is an avid polo player and great ambassador for women’s polo.

Russell Grace Corey (former 6 goal player) has played polo around the world and his father Alan Lyle Corey Jr (1917 – 1998) achieved a 9 goal rating and won the US Open in 1940,1941,1950, 1953 and 1954.