OLYMPIC hopeful Leslie Law will lead a quintet of local riders at this weekend's Windsor International Three Day event.

This two star competition takes place in the parkland surrounding the Queen's glorious Berkshire castle from May 27-30.

Among the leading contenders will be Law, recently named on the British team for the Athens Olympics on his top ride Shear L'Eau.

The 39-year-old, now riding for a yard near Upton-on-Severn, will be partnering Artic Fox too for Broadway owners Heidi and Rodney Day.

Law, whose best recent performance at Windsor was 15th on Garry Lea back in 1999, only started riding the horse last year.

In their first season together the pair finished in the top 10 in all of their one day event outings but Windsor will be the horse's three day event debut.

He has been in good form this season, finishing fifth and sixth in his last two Intermediate one day runs at Bicton in Devon and Withington Manor near Cheltenham.

Broadway based Tristam Owers has two rides, Gentle George and Rest Hill. This is his first season with Gentle George, who at just 15.2hh will be one of the smaller horses at the event, and they have quickly forged a promising partnership.

The pair finished second in the Osberton CIC in Nottinghamshire earlier this month and were also fourth at Aston-le-Walls one day event recently and third at Bicton.

Rest Hill qualified for the British Novice Championship at Gatcombe with Tristam last year, when he ended the season with 12th place in the Gatcombe CIC international one day event.

Carolyne Ryan-Bell, from Abbots Morton, is among the entries on Trimarster, a horse who was ridden by Broadway's Erica Watson in the past. Carolyne only took over the ride this season but opened 2004 with a great Intermediate win at Aldon one day event in Somerset.

Kidderminster-based Greg Dickens, who has competed at the top four star Burghley three day event several times on Woodfield Easy Street, rides his up and coming horse Rosealier.

He started the horse in pre-novice classes back in 2002 and has brought him through the ranks, completing the Weston Park CCI three day event in Shropshire last autumn.

This year the pair have finished second at Weston Park's one day event last month and seventh at Aston-le-Walls.

Completing the local challenge is Stoulton 25-year-old Bryony Robinson. She will ride her long term partner Coquin Du Vallon, a horse she bought in France as a five-year-old and who is now 14.

The grey gelding is a French bred Anglo Arab.