Eventing at CHIO Aachen started in 2007 and a team competition has been featured from the start. 

The US brought their first team to Aachen in 2013 and in 2015, they landed on the Aachen podium for the first time. They now have five total podium finishes out of their 10 team appearances.

Though you may remember the surprise when they didn’t win in 2023 - despite having three combinations in the top six - the closest the US actually came to team gold was in 2021 when they finished just 0.3 points behind Great Britain. That result was thanks largely to Will Coleman and Off The Record who that year earned the USA’s first-ever (and so far only) CHIO Aachen win.

This year, of course, it was second again and for the second time, the US team put two in the top five.

US team combinations at CHIO Aachen 2025

• Will Coleman & Off The Record - 4th place (counting score)
• Boyd Martin & Commando 3 - 5th place (counting score)
• Phillip Dutton & Possante - 11th place (counting score)
• Caroline Pamukcu & HSH Blake - 27th place

 What was key to their success this year? Every counting scorer for Team USA fully exploited the cross country phase. Will and Phillip each made their largest leaderboard climbs in that phase and Boyd continued his steady weekend climb thanks to cross-country day.

Will Coleman & Off The Record

Will Coleman & Off The Record were the second-fastest pair of the day, adding just 0.8 cross-country time penalties to their dressage score. (New Zealand's Monica Spencer & Artist were fastest with 0.4 time penalties.)

Off The Record is Mr. Reliable when it comes to top-level cross country courses. In his career, he's faced 25 courses at the CCI4* and CCI5* levels; he's jumped clear in all but one (CHIO Aachen 2023). Off The Record also happens to be in the top 0.3% of CCI4*-S cross-country horses when it comes to speed.

Boyd Martin & Commando 3

Boyd Martin & Commando 3 added just 3.2 XC time penalties to their dressage score. Commando 3 is ranked in the top 0.4% of CCI4*-S cross-country jumpers and this weekend he produced his second fastest time at the level (after his 1.2 time penalties in the 2024 Kentucky 4*-S).

Phillip Dutton & Possante

Lastly, Phillip Dutton & Possante climbed from 26th after show-jumping to finish 11th after cross-country. They had a rail on Friday evening (hence the 26th place), but then added only 5.6 XC time penalties on a day when the average number of time penalties was 8.8.

Of Possante's nine CCI4* starts (having not yet done a CCI5*), he's have never had a cross-country jumping fault and, like this weekend, he's kept the time low (6.0 and less) on four of those occasions. With Great Britain's Emily King at the 2022 Blenheim CCI4*-S (8/9 YO class), Possante totaled just 2.0 time penalties. Earlier this year with Phillip in the TerraNova CCI4*-S, Possante added just 3.6 time. And last year at Boekelo CCI4*-L, he & Phillip added just 6.0 time penalties. 

Thanks to their exceptional final day, Team USA added only 9.6 cross-country points to their team score – going from 107.6 after show-jumping to 117.2 after cross-country (final).  That was the lowest final-phase difference of all this year's CHIO Aachen teams. Next best were winners New Zealand who added 14.1 team points between SJ and XC. By maximising their performance over the CHIO Aachen cross-country course, the US team produced another proud showing in Germany.