North Bend girl rides in equestrian championships

Published 2:00 pm Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Sophia Click of North Bend is competing this week in the North American Junior Young Rider Championships in Lexington, Kentucky, July 16 to 19

She and her horse, Hot Wheels, will take part in the three-day eventing competition.

Also representing the region (Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana) with Click are Cadence Michel of Lakebay and Madelynn Snoozy of Battle Ground.

The championship, billed as the premier equestrian competition in North America for riders, ages 14 to 21, offers team and individual medals in the three Olympic equestrian disciplines of show jumping, dressage, eventing, the Para-Olympic discipline of para-dressage and the Federation Equestre Internationale World Equestrian Games disciplines of reining and endurance.

The competition is run under rules of the FEI and is the only FEI championship held annually on this continent.