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Mackey Wins Iditarod for 4th Straight Time

Mar 16th 2010 – 7:32PM
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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 SledDogs

Sled dogs or sledge dogs are highly trained types of dog that are used to pull a sled, a wheel-less vehicle on runners also called a sledge or sleigh, over snow or ice, by means of harnesses and lines.

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