French has seen a consistent set of results on her GB horse Jakata

Norfolk-raised Piggy French is expecting a tense affair at the World Equestrian Games later this month.

The 30-year-old heads to Lexington, Kentucky off the back of a third and fourth-placed finish at the weekend's Blenheim Palace International.

She told BBC Radio Norfolk: "I did think, standing around for the show-jumping, that everyone was getting a little bit tense.

"I thought this was going to be nothing compared to three weeks time."

Discussing the World Games she added: "In the running at the end of that there will be a lot of pressure and probably nothing like this week.

Both of them have a lot of qualities and it's very, very exciting for next year Piggy French on her Blenheim horses

"It is nerve-racking, it doesn't take much to drop a pole and you've got to keep working hard and hope luck is on your side."

She will be riding Jakata in the USA, a horse jointly owned by her father Wally and Michael Underwood, but achieved her Blenheim success on Chase The Moon and Flying Machine.

"Both of them have a lot of qualities and it's very, very exciting for next year," she said.

"How they've come out and performed this year, they would have learned a lot from this week."

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