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Iditarod Trail Dog Sled Race 2011 [PHOTOS]

Mar 6th 2011 – 8:31PM
Erik Hill, The Anchorage Daily News / AP

Erik Hill, The Anchorage Daily News / AP

The Iditarod Trail Dog Sled Race was first run in 1973 as mushers and their teams of sled dogs raced over a thousand miles through the Alaska countryside. Lance Mackey enters the 2011 race having won the last four Iditarod competitions....

Mackey Wins Iditarod for 4th Straight Time

Mar 16th 2010 – 7:32PM
MCT

MCT

NOME, Alaska (March 16) -- Lance Mackey won the 1,100-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Tuesday to become the first musher in the event's 38-year history to win four consecutive races. Fans bundled up against subzero temperatures cheered the 39-year-old throat cancer survivor as his team coasted up the main street of...

Background on Iditarod sled dog race

The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race is an annual long-distance sled dog race run in early March from Anchorage to Nome.

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