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Aliy Zirkle takes lead in Iditarod sled dog race

Last updated Saturday, March 10, 2012 - 2:14pm

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Aliy Zirkle has retaken her lead in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race and appears to be the one to beat.

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Seavey reaches Yukon first, but no feast this year

Mark Thiessen The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, March 9, 2012 - 8:34pm

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Mitch Seavey was the first musher to reach Ruby in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race but some of the fanfare was missing Friday.

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2004 Iditarod champion Mitch Seavey takes lead

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Last updated Friday, March 9, 2012 - 3:45pm

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Mitch Seavey is the first musher in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race to reach the village of Ruby, 480 miles from the finish line at Nome.

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Jim Lanier takes Iditarod lead

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Last updated Thursday, March 8, 2012 - 3:39pm

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Jim Lanier has taken the lead in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race but has not yet taken a mandatory 24-hour break.

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Aliy Zirkle maintains Iditarod lead

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Last updated Wednesday, March 7, 2012 - 3:20pm

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Musher Aliy Zirkle is maintaining her lead in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.

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Alaska musher Aliy Zirkle leading Iditarod

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Last updated Tuesday, March 6, 2012 - 4:14pm

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Musher Aliy Zirkle is leading the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.

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Iditarod champ couldn't quit on Native people

Mark Thiessen The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, March 5, 2012 - 10:14pm

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- It took John Baker 16 tries to win the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. He had to think long and hard about coming back to defend his title.

The 49-year-old Inupiat musher from northwest Alaska has become an icon of sorts for Alaska Native youth, and he said he couldn't retire because so many people are counting on him.

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40th Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race begins in Alaska

Mary Pemberton The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, March 5, 2012 - 3:24pm

WILLOW, Alaska — To a rousing send-off from fans, dozens of dog sled teams took to the trail for the start of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, embarking on a near thousand-mile journey through the Alaskan wilderness.

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In this image made Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012, veterinarian Scott Rosenbloom, of Philadelphia, Pa., takes a look at Karin Hendrickson's dog team at the vet check at Iditarod headquarters in Wasilla, Alaska. The ceremonial start for the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog race is Saturday, March 3, 2012, in Anchorage. (AP Photo/Anchorage Daily News, Mark Lester)

2012 Iditarod

The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, March 3, 2012 - 7:20pm

The 2012 Iditarod is set to begin this week.

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Iditarod has ceremonial start in Anchorage

Mark Thiessen The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, March 3, 2012 - 11:15pm

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- It was all laughs, smiles and barks during the ceremonial start of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Anchorage on Saturday morning.

The fan-fest annually precedes the real start of the race, scheduled for Sunday 50 miles north of Anchorage in Willow.

"I think it's great," said Susan Chan of Little Rock, Ark. She was in Anchorage for a Rotary conference which ended just before Saturday's event.

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Timothy and Hannah Metarko of Moran reach out to high five mushers Friday, Jan. 27, 2012, in Jackson, Wyo., at the ceremonial start of the International Pedigree Stage Stop Sled Dog Race. Hundreds showed up for the start of the largest sled dog race in the lower 48 states that will conclude in Park City, Utah, on Feb. 5, 2012. (AP Photo / Jackson Hole News&Guide, Jeannette Boner)

Sled dog race from Wyo. to Utah under way

Brielle Schaeffer Jackson Hole News & Guide

Last updated Monday, January 30, 2012 - 10:48am

JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) -- For many of the competitors in this year's International Pedigree Stage Stop Sled Dog Race, mushing is all in the family. And that goes for more than the lineage of the furry athletes.

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John Baker wins the Iditarod

The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, March 15, 2011 - 3:02pm

NOME, Alaska -- John Baker crossed the finish line first Tuesday in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race to reclaim the title of Iditarod champion for an Alaska Native musher.

Baker, 48, of Kotzebue steered his dog team down the main drag in this gold rush town on Alaska's western coast to win the 1,150-mile race from Anchorage to Nome, and get his name in the record books.

He is the first Alaska Native musher to win the world's longest sled dog race since Jerry Riley did it in 1976.

Baker also shattered exactly by three hours the race record held by four-time champion Martin Buser, who completed the 2002 race in eight days, 22 hours and 46 minutes. Baker completed the race in 8 days, 19 hours and 46 minutes.

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Top Iditarod sled dog racers 171 miles from Nome

The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, March 14, 2011 - 2:38pm

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- John Baker of Kotzebue was first out of the Koyuk checkpoint early Monday, only 171 miles from the finish line at Nome in the 1,150-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog race.

He had arrived late Sunday night about 1 1/2 hours ahead of Hans Gatt of Whitehorse, Yukon, and Ramey Smyth of Willow.

Defending four-time champion Lance Mackey of Fairbanks is 13th in the standings on the race website.

Part of the trail to the next checkpoint at Elim runs over Norton Sound sea ice.

The Iditarod began March 5 with 62 teams. Ten have scratched or withdrawn.

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Iditarod: Neff reaches Anvik, gets gourmet meal

The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, March 11, 2011 - 4:15pm

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- For arriving first at the checkpoint in Anvik, Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race musher Hugh Neff was treated to an eight-course gourmet meal and $3,500 in cash.

The 43-year-old musher is competing in his seventh Anchorage to Nome sled dog race.

The gourmet meal was whipped up by chefs from a luxury Anchorage hotel who fly in and prepare it on cook stoves set up in the Anvik village hall.

While Neff decided to rest his team and enjoy his "First Musher to the Yukon Award," musher Sebastian Schnuelle spent just four minutes in the checkpoint Friday morning and grabbed the lead.

He was followed by Hans Gatt, who finished second last year behind four-time defending champion Lance Mackey.

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Alaska village welcomes Iditarod mushers

Mary Pemberton, The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, March 10, 2011 - 4:53pm

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- A cadre of pint-sized cooks stirred pots of moose stew, doled out bowls of spaghetti and prepared grilled cheese sandwiches for dog-tired mushers arriving at the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race checkpoint in the village of Nikolai.

The students at the Top of the Kuskokwim School served food, and if need be, carried it to tables set up in the gymnasium, where a large banner welcomed Iditarod mushers to the village 784 miles from the finish line in Nome.

"We get mushers in throughout the night and usually have two to three people here cooking all night, just to make sure that these mushers who come in at 4 or 5 in the morning, after taking care of their dogs, have something warm to eat," said 16-year-old Phil Runkle, a sophomore who helped organize the school's 17 students for the Iditarod invasion.

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