Achievements
- 2025 - FEI World Number 1
- 2025 - Kentucky 5*L - three horses in the top 10 (2nd/6th/7th)
- 2024 - Boyd completed all seven global permanent CCI5* events
- 2024 - Competed at the Paris 2024 Olympics for Team USA
- 2022 - FEI World Championships Pratoni - Team Silver
- 2021 - Maryland 5* Win - On Cue
- 2021 - Kentucky National Champion
- 2020 - Competed at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics for Team USA
- 2019 - Kentucky National Champion
- 2019 - Kentucky CCI5*-L 2nd
- 2019 - Pan American Games - Individual and Team Gold
- 2016 - Competed at the Rio 2016 Olympics for Team USA
- 2015 - Pan American Games - Team Gold
- 2014 - Luhmühlen CCI5*-L - 3rd
- 2012 - Competed at the London 2012 Olympics for Team USA
- 2003 - Adelaide CCI5*-L Winner
Notable Horses
Neville Bardos
Pancho Villa
Shamwari 4
Tsetserleg TSF
On Cue
Federman B
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International Event Rider
Boyd Martin grew up eventing in his native Australia, where he trained out of Heath and Rozzie Ryan’s equestrian center. A highlight of his competitive career there was winning the 2003 Adelaide CCI4* with True Blue Toozac.
He relocated to the United States in from Australia in 2007 to pursue his dreams of competing in international three-day eventing. He spent his first two years working as assistant trainer to Olympic Gold Medalist Phillip Dutton before striking out on his own. Boyd became a U.S. citizen in 2009 and has been a consistently leading rider for the U.S. since.
Boyd was the top finishing U.S. rider at the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games with Neville Bardos. Next year, he and Ying Yang Yo won the 2011 USEF National Eventing Championships at the Fair Hill International CCI*, which Boyd had previously won in 2009.
After facing a devastating barn fire and the deaths of his father and father-in-law in 2011, Boyd made an incredible comeback in the sport with Neville Bardos to finish 7th at the Burghley Horse Trials CCI4*. Boyd finished 2011 ranked 8th on the HSBC World Rankings, Neville Bardos was named the 2011 International Horse of the Year by the USEF, and The Chronicle of the Horse named Boyd its 2011 Overall Rider of the Year.
His repeated top ten finishes at the largest international events in the world include 3rd place and 8th place finishes aboard Otis Barbotier and Remington XXV at the Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event in 2011. As the only member of the U.S. Eventing team’s “A” training list with three horses, Boyd reached his goal of riding in the Olympic Games aboard Otis Barbotiere in London in 2012.
Today Boyd and his wife, Grand Prix dressage rider Silva Martin, and their 3 sons own and operate a farm in Cochranville, PA. Boyd currently has several horses competing at the upper levels and always has numerous young horses coming up the ranks.
In 2024, Boyd completed all seven global permanent CCI5* events, becoming only the second rider ever to do so — underscoring his longevity and versatility at the top level. And in May 2025 Boyd reached FEI World No. 1 status for the first time - the first American to do so since 2004!
Boyd Martin’s helmet of choice
