JESS MENDOZA is all set to bring a strong team of horses, including Toy Boy and Wan Architect, to the London International Horse Show which starts at Olympia on Monday.

Olympia is the favourite show of the Wiltshire rider who is now based at Eindhoven in the Netherlands.

She has competed there since the age of 10 in the junior and pony classes and she is the ‘poster girl’ for the show this year.

Jess will be looking to finish the year on a high and bidding for a repeat win in the big class on the Friday evening, which she took in 2015 with Spirit T.

Earlier this year 20-year-old Jess became the youngest member of a British Olympic showjumping squad for more than 40 years, when she was named travelling reserve for Rio in August.

Although not required to ride, Jess looked back at the whole experience positively, saying: “Having discovered just how amazing it is to be at an Olympics with the world’s elite athletes across all sports, it has been made me even more determined to get to ride in Tokyo.”

Jess has been fortunate to be selected as the rider for the Elite Horse Owners Showjumping Fund which will be looking to purchase three to five horses for her to campaign from 2017 to Tokyo.

Next year Jess will be looking to climb further up the world rankings having finished the 2016 LGCT season ranked 86 (as one of only six Brits to feature in the series alongside John Whitaker, Scott Brash, Laura Renwick, Michael Whitaker and Ben Maher) and just outside the top 100 in the FEI rankings.

Jess will be looking to make the British team for the European Championships in Sweden next summer and will kick New Year off with a three-month campaign at Wellington's Winter Equestrian Festival in Palm Beach Florida (Jan-March), hopefully staying on to kick off her 2017 Longines Global Championship campaign with Miami in April.