Kitty Boggis underlined her world class potential with a dream debut at the Badminton Horse Trials.

The 22-year-old rider from Lew, near Bampton, was beaten only by Olympic medallists as she finished seventh overall and picked up three trophies in a remarkable weekend.

And she achieved all this despite suffering a serious fall just three weeks before the event.

Riding her former racehorse Five Boys, Boggis finished only 13.9 penalty points behind winner Pippa Funnell and secured the best under 25 rider, best debutant and best local rider awards.

Boggis said: "I was delighted. I was really pleased with it.

"You always have some wild dream of doing so well, but in reality I was hoping to compete and if I'd finished in the top 20 or 25 I would've been delighted."

She added: "I didn't really notice the injury when I was riding. It just made my preparation a bit harder."

Boggis lay joint 12th after the dressage stage where she picked up 52 penalty points and slipped to 14th with 6.4 penalties in the cross country. But a clear round and no time penalties in the show jumping lifted her to seventh behind Australian Olympic gold medallist Andrew Hoy.

Boggis was the fourth-placed British rider and is now hoping she and Five Boys are selected for the European Championships at Blenheim in September.

In the long term she has set her sights on the Beijing Olympics in 2008.

And if she does so on Five Boys this would cap a fairy-tale transformation for the former National Hunt horse.

Boggis said: "He was too slow for jumping, his best finish was sixth.

"The lady who brought him out of training is now his physio and I bought him from her."

Boggis has represented Britain at pony, junior and young rider level and was due for her Badminton debut last year before Five Boys picked up an injury.