Just days before the start of the eventing competition at Versailles, the U.S. Eventing Team Chef d’Equipe Bobby Costello has confirmed that U.S. Eventing Team athlete Will Coleman will now compete his direct reserve selection, Diabolo, a 2012 Holsteiner gelding (Diarado x Aljano 2) owned by the Diabolo Group and cared for by Hailey Burlock & Erin Jarboe.
Diabolo will replace Off The Record, his first selected horse on the original team announcement, who will now join the three-member team with Coleman, alongside Boyd Martin and Fedarman B, and Caroline Pamukcu and HSH Blake.
The German-bred 12-Year-old Diabolo was initially produced and campaigned in Australia by Gemma Tinney before being sold to Will in early 2023; in April Will and Diabolo won the Kentucky CCI4*-S
Watch our pre-Paris interview with Will Coleman at Stable View here