Laura Bechtolsheimer to star in BBC Olympic's documentary

Top hats and tailcoats at the ready as dressage rider, Laura Bechtolsheimer is to feature on this weekends BBC British Olympic Dreams documentary which focuses on British hopefuls for the London games next year.

British event rider, Piggy French featured on the show back in May and now its Gloustershire based, Laura Bechtolsheimer’s time to shine, taking BBC journalist, Ollie Williams behind the scenes

"Laura was a great candidate for the programme — she's one of the finest dressage riders in the world and one of Britain’s top prospects to secure a medal," said Ollie Williams.

"We spent a day filming at her yard - meeting her horses and family and learning how Laura and Alf grew up together and formed such a great partnership. And how's she's preparing for the London 2012.

"For the second part of the programme we went to Germany and met Totilas and Matthias Rath — who Laura used to go out with. So that is especially interesting — competing against her ex-boyfriend who's riding the best — and most expensive — horse in the world."

Journalist Ollie Williams will be finding out what makes the combination of Laura and the well known chestnut, Mistral Hojris (Alf) tick, and their future Olympic plans. The program will be aired at 1.15pm on the 18th June and will be available on BBC iPlayer up to 7 days after.