Tough for royal Zara at Windsor

Zara Phillips is facing the most important challenge of her riding career at the four-day Windsor International Horse Trials which open in the Great Park tomorrow.

The 20-year-old daughter of Olympic riders Mark Phillips and The Princess Royal will be competing in her first two-star event.

She will be riding Toytown on whom she achieved her best result when finishing second at the recent Burghie Horse Trials in Scotland. The gelding was found for her by Yorkshire?s Trevor Banks, a long-standing friend of her parents.

Last weekend at the Gatcombe Horse Trials, Zara was 11th in an intermediate section on the Queen?s Aurora. She rode Toytown in the same class but only in the dressage and showjumping sections.