Equestrian Sport Promotions, which already organises the successful annual Winter Equestrian Festival, said that it plans to submit a bid in 2012 but has announced details of it now so they can begin building support for the plan across the rest of Florida.

Michael Stone, the President of Equestrian Sport Promotions, said: "It's a huge, prestigious event.

"We think we now have the facility to be able to do it and to do it really well."

The most recent Games, held in 2006 in Aachen, Germany - where Britain's Zara Phillips won the three day event title - drew about 576,000 spectators and had an estimated economic impact of $311 million (£204 million), Equestrian Sport Promotions claimed.

This year's event is due to be held in Lexington, Kentucky, the first time they have been held outside of Europe for 20 years.

The 2014 Games have been awarded to Normandy in France.

Wellington, which originally the world's largest strawberry patch, has a population of less than 60,000 but Equestrian Sports Promotions has already spent $10 million (£6.5 million) on renovations at Palm Beach International Equestrian Center, where the Games would be held.

Eight equestrian sports compete in the World Equestrian Games: driving, endurance, eventing, jumping, dressage, reining, vaulting and para dressage.