EQUESTRIAN: Boswell called-up for European Junior event.

YOUNG Warwickshire rider Henry Boswell has been selected for the British team due to travel out to the Junior European Dressage Championships this week, with his horse DHI Faederlite.

The Radway-based Boswell, who has just turned 17, is one of four British riders, all aged 18 and under, travelling to the Championships at Saumur in France.

The teenager already has experience of international competition however, as he rode for Britain at last year's Pony European Dressage Championships, winning team bronze.

"We bought DHI Faederlite, a 16.2 hands Dutch bred chestnut, last December," said his mother Maggie Boswell, who runs Radway Riding School. "This season Henry has been riding him in the national Premier League competitions across Britain, building up the partnership so they understand each other."

The pair particularly impressed selectors at the latest in a series of Young Rider meetings on British soil, the British Young Riders Dressage Scheme "Go for Gold" day at Addington in Bucking-hamshire.

Thirty of the best under-21 riders in Britain had been invited to take part and Boswell won one of the two junior tests on offer to stake his claim.

He then emerged as overall junior champion, beating his main rival in the junior category this season Laura Bechtol-sheimer, to claim the British Dressage Junior Trophy. The teams for the Young Rider, Junior and Pony European teams were announced after the competition.

Boswell's previous form this season has also been of the highest quality, as he has won Junior FEI tests at several Premier League Shows this season, including Somerford Park, College Equestrian Centre and Osbaldeston.

He was also chosen for the British Equestrian Federation's national "start up and potential" scheme early in 2003, gaining valuable training opportunities.

"He is now trained by Olympic dressage rider Carl Hester, with additional help from Dan Greenwood," said his mother. "DHI Faederlite is a lovely horse who really tries and we are thrilled that Henry has done so well so quickly."