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Sled dog racing (sometimes termed dog sled racing) is a winter dog sport most popular in the Arctic regions of the United States, Canada, Russia, Greenland and some European countries. [1] It involves the timed competition of teams of sled dogs that pull a sled with the dog driver or musher standing on the runners.
King moved to Alaska in 1975 and began racing in 1976. He won the Yukon Quest in 1989, and the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in 1993, 1996, 1998, and, at age 50, the 2006 Iditarod, [2] making him the oldest musher to have ever won the event, a distinction he held until 2017, when Mitch Seavey won at age 57.
In 1932, sled dog racing was a demonstration sport at the 1932 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, but was only included in one other winter olympics in a slightly different form of sled dog racing known as pulka. [3] [4] [5] The most famous sled dog race is the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, an annual 1000
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The Pedigree State Stop Race is a stage stop sled dog race that takes place annually in the US States of Wyoming and Idaho. The race starts in Jackson, Wyoming and makes stops in Driggs, Idaho , and the following Wyoming cities: Alpine , Pinedale , Lander , Big Piney / Marbleton , Kemmerer , and Uinta , totaling 302 miles.
At the beginning of the 1970s, the "sled pointer" had emerged, a pointing dog who was bred for sledding and not hunting. [ 7 ] In the 1970s, "Nome-style" sled racing, which mimicked the bigger teams running long distances and overnighting in subzero temperatures seen in North American-style races, started to attract interest in Scandinavia.
A team of fourteen mixed-breed dogs mushing. Mushing is a general term for a sport or transport method powered by dogs, and includes carting, sled dog racing, skijoring, freighting, and weight pulling. More specifically, it implies the use of one or more dogs to pull a sled on snow.