Hometown: West Grove, Pa. Birthday: 9/13/1963 Sport/Disciplines: Eventing Olympic Years: 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020
Phillip Dutton began riding horses on his family farm while growing up in Australia. He moved to the U.S. in 1991 to prepare for the Atlanta 1996 Olympic Games and continued representing his native country until 2006, when he became a U.S. citizen. Dutton has been a mainstay on U.S. teams ever since. Dutton has competed in nearly every Olympic Games in eventing since 1996, winning team gold with Australia in Atlanta 1996 and Sydney 2000, and represented the U.S. Eventing Team in 2008, 2012, 2016, and 2020. He won individual bronze with Mighty Nice at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. He has competed in seven FEI World Equestrian Games, representing the U.S. for the first time in 2006. He won team gold and individual silver at the 2007 Pan American Games with Truluck and team gold at the 2015 Pan American Games with Fernhill Fugitive.
Dutton has been the top-finishing American at the Kentucky Three-Day Event several times, winning the USET Foundation Pinnacle Cup in 2017 with Mr. Medicott, 2015 with Fernhill Cubalawn, 2010 with Woodburn, and 2007 and 2008 with Connaught. In 2008, he was also the overall winner of the event. Dutton and Z were fourth at the 2022 Maryland 5 Star and fifth at the 2023 Land Rover Kentucky Three-Day Event presented by MARS Equestrian™ CCI5*-L.
Dutton has continued to campaign with a top string of CCI4* and CCI5* mounts. Strong top five finishes for both Possante and Denim in the 2025 Lexington CCI4*-S in April helped build momentum for Dutton moving into the summer season. A highlight moment of the summer was a podium with the Defender U.S. Eventing Team at 2025 CHIO Aachen, where Dutton and Possante helped the team secure their third consecutive silver medal in the CCIO4*-NC-S competition, and where they finished in 11th individually, just ahead of barn mate Denim, who took 14th overall. Dutton continued to carry that form through the remainder of the 2025 season, finishing as the overall runner-up in the US Equestrian Open Eventing Series standings, and capped the year with a sixth-place finish aboard Denim at the inaugural US Equestrian Open Eventing Final CCI4*-L at Morven Park International Equestrian Center in October 2025.
In 2026, Dutton continues to produce results with a talented string of horses, which has included numerous top ten finishes in international competition, including a top ten finish at the Defender Kentucky Three-Day Event with Possante, where they took eighth overall. Dutton and Denim captured the win in the CCI4*-S at Bromont in June, where they finished on their dressage score of 29.3.
Dutton resides in Pennsylvania with his wife Evie, twin daughters, Mary and Olivia, and stepdaughter Lee Lee.