Today’s sled dogs little like hero of yesteryear Short of leg, a little wide of girth and fluffy, the legendary sled dog Balto looks little like the skinny, short-haired, long-legged hounds of […]
Yesterday’s heroes
Rest matters
Tired Iditarod dogs could be seen to look ‘exhausted’ Yet again, the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race has a public relations problem because people have noticed the esoteric little race across the […]
Rabbit redux
Iditarod finish controversy brewing Fifty years on from the first running of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, a Redington has finally won in a 2023 version of the event that […]
Ever faster
The Iditarod and the quest for speed Part III of III Ever since musher Rick Swenson’s epic, man-against-the-elements victory of 1991 when he went to the front of his dog […]
The outcast
The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, which for years put up with the antics of Cat in the Hat-musher Hugh Neff, has now banned him, but won’t say why. Neff says he […]
Iditahell
UPDATE (May 12, 2022): The Iditarod Trail Committee today revealed it has modified the penalities imposed on mushers Michelle Phillips and Mille Porsild, restored them to their positions in the finishing order […]
Dog care victims
The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, which publicly proclaims itself to be “All About the Dogs,” has quietly penalized two top female mushers for being all about the dogs. One of […]
The great race
As the leaders in Alaska’s Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Sunday pushed their teams hard along the Bering Sea Coast toward the Nome finish line for the self-proclaimed ”Last Great […]
And they’re off
Alaska’s biggest reality show staged its first episode on the streets and trails of the state’s largest city as the snow fell heavy on Saturday. The ceremonial start of the Iditarod Trail […]
Shades of Iditarod
The doped racehorse that won the Kentucky Derby on May 1 is on the verge of being disqualified, and the horse’s trainer is suggesting his race was sabotaged. Where have we […]
