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Iditarod Trail Dog Sled Race 2011 [PHOTOS]

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

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...

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05/02/12 A Dog and a Dream Source: Argus-Press - Owosso MI I will never forget the day I got my first dog.
04/25/12 Lance Mackey wins 4th consecutive Iditarod Source: ABC - WGTU/WGTQ 29&8 - Virginia Beach VA Lance Mackey picked up a few rewards on his way to winning an unprecedented fourth consecutive win in the 1,000-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. The 39-year-old musher from Fairbanks stopped to pick up a moose rack along the trail, and, 10 miles from the finish line in Nome Tuesday, he spent five minutes digging up a pair of caribou antlers that he used as a sort of hood ornament on the homestretch.

Background on Lance Mackey

Lance Mackey (born June 2, 1970) is an American dog musher and dog sled racer from Fairbanks, Alaska, who is a four-time winner of the 1,000-mile Yukon Quest and four-time winner of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.

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