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The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, which had its Official Restart in Fairbanks last year for the fourth time ever, is ...
The Iditarod Trail Committee announced that as of June 28, 22 mushers have officially entered the Last Great Race, set for ...
A sled dog jumps into the air while waiting for the ceremonial start of the Iditarod this past Saturday. (Amanda Loman/AP) Column by Sally Jenkins Why not run the Iditarod with teams of humans ...
Ryan Redington poses with his lead dogs Sven, left, and Ghost, after he won the 2023 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, on March 14, 2023 in Nome, Alaska. AP “It took a lot work, took a lot of patience.
The Iditarod Trail dog sled race is a sled dog race from Anchorage, Alaska to Nome, Alaska, a route that is over 1,100 miles long. Aside from basic animal rights arguments against using dogs for ...
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NOME – Jessie Holmes raced into Nome early Friday, winning his first Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on the longest trail ever. The 43-year-old musher and his team of 10 dogs were escorted by a ...
The Iditarod is the most popular dog sled race in the world. Teams of one musher and 12-14 dogs race nearly 1,000 miles, traveling northwest across Alaska from Anchorage to Nome.
Sled dogs mushed by Jeff Deeter (33), of Fairbanks, Alaska, run during the Ceremonial Start of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Anchorage, Alaska., Saturday, March 1, 2025.
When unseasonably warm temperatures left the Iditarod course unusable, organizers were forced to reconfigure a 1,128-mile course through the Alaskan wilderness. The result is a race like nothing ...
The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, which had its Official Restart in Fairbanks last year for the fourth time ever, is ...
Mushers, and a few of their four-legged athletes, congregated around the Joe Redington Sr. statue at the Iditarod ...