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  2. 2 dogs die during 1,000-mile Iditarod, prompting call from ...

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    Two dogs died over the weekend during Alaska’s annual Iditarod sled dog race, marking the first deaths during the race in five years and renewing calls to end the 1,000-mile (1,609-kilometer ...

  3. Alaska's 52nd annual Iditarod sled dog race mushes to ... - AOL

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    The race, commemorating a famed dog-sled relay to deliver diphtheria serum to Nome in 1925, has come a long way since it began in 1973 as a low-budget novelty event consisting entirely of amateur ...

  4. List of sled dog races - Wikipedia

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    The first sled dog race to feature a codified set of rules was the All-Alaska Sweepstakes, which first took place in 1908. This was followed in 1917 by the American Dog Derby, which was the first sled dog race outside Alaska or the Yukon. [1] In 1929 the Laconia World Championship Sled Dog Race" was first held in the city of Laconia, New Hampshire.

  5. Assault claims roil Iditarod sled dog race as 2 top mushers ...

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    This year’s 1,000-mile (1,609-kilometer) race across the Alaska wilderness begins March 2 with the ceremonial start in Anchorage. The competitive start comes the next day, about 75 miles (121 ...

  6. Jeff King (musher) - Wikipedia

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    King's "Idita-Rider" -- a person who rides in the front storage compartment for the ceremonial start of the race [9]-- for the 2005 Iditarod was a child sponsored by the Make-a-Wish Foundation. King has also won many other sled dog races. He has a kennel, Husky Homestead, near the entrance of Denali National Park. As of 2023 he was still racing ...

  7. 2024 Iditarod - Wikipedia

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    The 2024 Iditarod is the 52nd year of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, an annual sled dog race in the U.S. state of Alaska. It began on March 3, 2024. [3] Competitor Dallas Seavey was given a two-hour time penalty on March 6 for not properly gutting a moose he killed during the race. He used a handgun to shoot and kill the moose and spent ...

  8. Alaska's Iditarod dogs get neon visibility harnesses after 5 ...

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    The Iditarod, the annual sled dog race celebrating Alaska's official state sport, got underway Saturday with a new focus on safety after five dogs died and eight were injured in collisions with ...

  9. Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race - Wikipedia

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    The race's namesake is the Iditarod Trail, which was designated as one of the first four US National Historic Trails in 1978. [6] The trail, in turn, is named for the town of Iditarod, which was an Athabaskan village before becoming the center of the Inland Empire's [a] Iditarod Mining District in 1910, and then becoming a ghost town at the end of the local gold rush.