Yarm and District Saddle Club is fielding its own home international team this weekend.

The three-day event at the British Riding Clubs horse trials finals in Warwickshire is the first competition between members from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

The Yarm club will be representing one of the England teams with Helen Foulds, Becky Rogerson, Carrie Prest and Suzie Jennison, whose mother Ann Jennison will act as their commander.

The team has been training hard and has had to learn a new discipline involving a dressage test performance.

Yarm have also qualified a team - Helen Foulds, Suzie Jennison, Liz Banks and Claire Chapman - and an individual entrant, Chris Rogers, for the novice horse trial championships being staged the same weekend.

Next month the club will be sending their experienced team of six horses and riders, led by Ellen Watt, for their fourth appearance at the British Riding Clubs national championships on September 13 at Lincoln.

They will be performing the international rural riders dressage test, facing stiff opposition from all over the country.

The team is Colin Saint, Michelle Clough, Penny Saint, Debbie Walker, Emma Cox and Gordon O'Neill.

Yarm finished third in the competition last year and have high hopes of doing even better.

Penny Saint will also be competing in the BRC's Evergreen Horse of the Year Championships, open to veteran horses.