Lance Mackey clocked the swiftest time in the first stretch of the Copper Basin 300 sled-dog race, which began Saturday afternoon in Paxson. Mackey, the four-time defending Iditarod champion from Fairbanks, made the 58-mile run from Paxson to Chistochina in 5 hours, 24 minutes. Read the rest of this entry »
Lance Mackey clocked the swiftest time in the first stretch of the Copper Basin 300 sled-dog race, which began Saturday afternoon in Paxson. Read the rest of this entry »
Sun River sled dog racer Bino Fowler mushed his eight dogs into the Ferguson Ridge Ski Area near Wallowa Lake at 6:39 a.m. today, winning the 100-mile Eagle Cap Extreme Sled Dog Race. Read the rest of this entry »
Steve Mullen and his 18-year-old daughter, Brandi, are having the ultimate father-daughter adventure, mushing separate teams of Alaskan huskies for 100 miles through northeastern Oregon’s rugged Wallowa Mountains. Read the rest of this entry »
Thirty-two sled dog teams are entered in the Flathead Sled Dog Days this weekend, including husband-wife teams, husband-wife-daughter teams and father-daughter teams. Read the rest of this entry »
Visit DogBreedStore.com where we have thousands of products for hundreds of breeds.2011 marks the 50th year of sled dog racing in Oregon. Read the rest of this entry »
Sled dogs have been pulling sleds and moving people and their supplies for thousands of years, but on Jan. 8-9, about 40 teams will be racing for the sake of racing, and at top speeds along picturesque snowy trails through the 108 Mile Heritage Site. Read the rest of this entry »
Fogelsville’s Scott Farmer tries sled dog racing Read the rest of this entry »
The importance of the sled dog races to open space in Hamilton-Wenham Read the rest of this entry »
Visit DogBreedStore.com where we have thousands of products for hundreds of breeds.Despite the rapid disappearance of snow from last week’s blizzard, organizers of the Laconia World Championship Sled Dog Derby are optimistic that there’ll be plenty of the white stuff in time for the 81st running of the event next month. Read the rest of this entry »
Daryl Hollingsworth drove his 14-dog team to the first-day lead in the open class of the Orville and Doris Lake Memorial sled dog race at Tozier Track. Read the rest of this entry »
Josh Cadzow is continually under a spotlight as one of the Yukon Quest’s rising stars. And he’s trying not to mind it. Read the rest of this entry »
Those sled dogs might seem like they’re putting on a show. But, on Jan. 16, racing down the Virginia Creeper Trail, for two dozen Siberian Huskies, is actually part of a benefit for a dog-lovers group in Bristol, Va. Read the rest of this entry »
The Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race will have a minimum purse of $150,000 in 2010, the Alaska and Yukon boards of directors announced Wednesday. Read the rest of this entry »
Dog drivers from Jamaica, Scotland, Italy, Canada and the United States – most especially Alaska – will compete the 2010 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, a northern route that will take mushers and nearly 1,000 sled dogs over 1,112 miles of Alaska wilderness. Read the rest of this entry »
Organizers of the Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race have moved their 2010 start time up a week, a change that could tempt more mushers to try both the Quest and the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Read the rest of this entry »
A sixth dog in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog race has died.. Read the rest of this entry »
Andrea Aufder Heyde of Indiana set out 10 years ago to prove that having a teacher on board for the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race would be a lightning rod to attract students to learn. Read the rest of this entry »
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