TOP rider Joanna Jackson and her horse Mester Mouse hit the Atlanta trail today.

The Chatburn dressage expert has already made the Olympic Games long-list.

And, after winning the first two of four trials, she is in pole position to be selected for the six-strong short-list.

From those six just four will make the trip to Atlanta after an intensive training camp.

Today's competition at Stoneleigh, Kent, in front of TV cameras and a crowd of 400, features the new discipline of dressage to music.

"It is a new routine from the musicals Cats and Joseph and is very dramatic.

"I do not like to be too optimistic but we were the best of the British participants at the European championships.

"And Mester Mouse is full of himself at the moment - making the Olympics would be my dream," said Joanna.

Converted for the new archive on 14 July 2000. Some images and formatting may have been lost in the conversion.