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Midview Grad and Dog-Sled Racer Speaks to Elementary Students
Just one good sled dog is able to pull 1,500 pounds, and the stars of the Iditarod need a lot of energy to complete the race, according to 2007 Midview graduate Cory Igneczi.
Each of the 16 dogs pu...
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Canadian Sled Dog Challenge Starts in Buckland Sask
The Canadian Challenge Sled Dog Race is underway on a route that will take teams across northern Saskatchewan.
Twenty teams took off from the starting line at the Buckland Arena near the city of Pr...
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Race Is A Fitting Tribute To Musher
The common definition of "Unalakleet" is "the place where the east wind blows." It certainly blows from the east there -- 20 mph is considered calm.
However, the true meaning of Unalakleet is an ad...
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Aniak Sled Dog Race Set to Begin Friday
The Aniak 150 sled dog race is set to begin Friday evening in Aniak.
KYUK (http://bit.ly/pEOxAj ) says only four mushers are signed up for the race so far. Mushers can enter the 150-mile race right...
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Unfinished Business for Haliburton Musher
Hank DeBruin set to tackle Alaskas Iditarod again this year
Marketed as the last great race, the Iditarod draws men and women from all over the world who share a passion for dogs and the drive to c...
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Veterninarians Give Canine Athletes the Go-Ahead
A day before their up to 517-kilometre journey was set to begin, the canine participants of this year's 15th Annual Canadian Challenge Sled Dog Race from Prince Albert to La Ronge got the go-ahead fro...
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Anchorage Kids Make Mushing Sport of Choice
The Goddard-Vaughan family has been trying to answer a question lately, one they never quite imagined would surface in their suburban Anchorage lives: Should they move from their home off Tudor Road i...
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Meet The Winning Quest Team
Mushers get a lot of credit for winning sled dog races, but ask any of them and theyll tell you the true credit goes to the dogs.
For me, I get so much more out of seeing my dogs get the respect th...
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UP200 Finish
It was a close race. It turns out that David Gill, who was leading, got runner up. Ryan Anderson surprised timers by crossing the finish line earlier than expected at 9:16 Sunday morning.
Anderson ...
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For Camden Youngsters, It's READY...SET...MUSH!
There was no snow, but a group of students from Camden were still able to say, Mush,” when they participated in the Pennridge Dog Sled Challenge here this weekend.
And they got to use a sled t...
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Robinson Holds On To Win World Junior Title In Sled Dog Racing
Alea Robinson held off a hard-charging Rachel Kinvig to claim a one-second victory in the World Junior Championship sled dog championship at Tozier Track.
Kinvig's team of seven dogs posted the fas...
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Russian Musher Claims Red Lantern in 2012 Yukon Quest
Michael Telpin crossed the finish line of the Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race Sunday evening and picked up one of dog mushings well-known honors the red lantern.
Telpin, of Chukotka, Russi...
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Robinson Keeps Lead in Junior Sled Dog Championship Race
Alea Robinson stretched Friday's lead from three seconds to 25 seconds Saturday in the seven-dog division of the Junior World Championship sprint mushing race at Tozier Track. Robinson completed 8.1 m...
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Gold Run Gets Under Way at Mushers Hall
After struggling through the preliminary season battling poor trail conditions and cold temperatures, the Alaska Dog Mushers Association championship season got under way in near perfect conditions Sa...
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Quest Mushers Wrap Up Festivities With Banquet
For a race thats all about the dogs, Abbie West wants to bring the Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race back to the people.
While driving her dog team over American Summit outside of Eagle, West...
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Mushing Through Life
Fourteen-year-old Aiyana Ferraro and her father, Doug, have been mushing together for five years. When Aiyana was nine she had her one dog, an australian shepherd, pull her on her bike. Now, the Ferra...
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Stray Sled Dog Wins Hearts, Home In Grand Marais
It's hard to say if Ralph adopted Grand Marais or it was the other way around.
Regardless, the result was a special love story that's being marked again this year through the dedication of Mile 119...
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Chugiak Kennel's Dream Comes True with a Yukon Quest Finish
Moon Run Kennels in Chugiak, Alaska, is the dream of Jim and Bonnie Foster, who moved from Florida to Alaska in 2003. Jim wrote on their web site for Moon Run Kennels, In 2001, my wife and I decided w...
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Sled Dogs Thrill Children at Waterloo's Ice Dogs Festival
A malamute bearing the unlikeliest of sled dog names Sherman managed to stir excitement in seven-year-old Connor Cluff Saturday afternoon at the 9th annual Ice Dogs Festival in uptown Waterloo.
I...
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Robinson Mushes To Slight Lead
Alea Robinson took the lead Friday at the ASDRA's Junior World Championship at Tozier Track, finishing the 8.1-mile course in 27 minutes, 51 seconds.
Robinson leads the seven-dog division by three ...
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