Lechlade-based Jay Halim is through to the final of a prestigious young horse championship, which has produced Olympic horses such as Leslie Law's Shear H20, Pippa Funnell's Badminton winner Primmore's Pride and William Fox-Pitt's Tamarillo in the past.

He has been competing in the Burghley Loddon Young Event Horse Championship series, open to four and five-year-old horses that show the potential to become top international eventers of the future.

Halim's success came in a qualifying round staged at the Milton Keynes one-day event, one of 20 qualifiers held nationwide from May to August.

The 25-year-old, who has an established reputation as a producer of talented competition horses, finished third to book his ticket to the final on the Dutch-bred piebald four- year-old Sir Duko.

Hamil will now go to the final run alongside the Land Rover Burghley International Horse Trials, one of the world's leading three-day events, in Lincolnshire this September, where he will be hoping to defend the title he won last year.

Georgie Spence, who is based at Foxham, was in action at the Jardy International in France.

The 19-year-old, who made an outstanding Badminton debut earlier this year on her top ride Running Brook II, finished sixth on Neremptah St Laurent, in a closely fought competition.

She only started eventing the French bred 11-year-old in April and this was the horse's first international outing. Spence was also 14th in the top CCI section on the mare Skylight.