Approximately 25 riders participated in last weekend’s Bronze Level Sanction Dressage Show hosted by the Yukon Horse and Rider Association.

Competition secretary MaryLynn Penner said dressage is about discipline, it’s about the systematic training of riders and their horses.

Just as figure skating is ballet on ice, dressage is ballet in the horse world, she said.

In the training level junior category, the championship went to Laina Prentice and the reserve place was won by Elizabeth Inglis-Comeau.

In the training level adult amateur, Cleo Hosni was declared champion and Laura Holmes took the reserve place.

In the first level adult amateur class, Cathy McNeil was champion.

Jody MacKenzie-Grieve was champion in the second level open category.

In the western high point, adult amateur category, Jauna Doland was champion and Judith Linton took the reserve place.

Olivia Barker was the champion in the western high point junior category and Alix Walchuk earned the reserve position.

“We had a competitor (Doland) from Skagway who comes up here every year,” said the competition secretary. “That is a real effort and she comes here lots.”

Penner said the dressage show has been hosted by the association for more than 20 years.

The association’s 39th annual horse show goes ahead in two weeks at the Northern Tempo Equestrian Centre off Burma Road along the North Klondike Highway.