Jamaica Dogsled Team to Train With Three Time Yukon Quest Champion as Part of 2007/2008 Winter Race Schedule
WHITEHORSE, YUKON TERRITORY CANADA WHITEHORSE, Yukon Territory, July 20 / — Danny Melvilleowner and founder of the Jamaica Dogsled Team announced today that his leadmusher will train with former Yukon Quest champion Hans Gatt in the hopesof qualifying for the 2009 Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race –billed as the…
Training to Free Run With an Electric Collar
I like to free run my dogs. Free running is great for a dog’s coordination and speed. I love to see them bounding through the woods over logs and rocks while never tripping.It amazes me how agile a fit dog can be at such high speeds. For the urban or…
Yukon Quest seeks new Race Director
The Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race is now accepting applications for the newly created position of Race Director. The Yukon Quest Race Director position replaces the former Race Manager role, and will be responsible for the overall event operations of the 1000-mile Yukon Quest, the Yukon Quest 300 and…
2007 Advance Pet Food Sled Dog Challenge August 11-12
The 2007 Advance Pet Foods Sled Dog Challenge, Australia’s only sled dog race on snow, is being held over the weekend of 11th – 12th August at Dinner Plain, 8km east of Mt Hotham.This annual event attracts the finest sled dog teams from all over Australia, even as far away…
Mushing USA Seeks Applications for IFSS 2007 Dryland World Championships
Mushing USA (MUSA) is soliciting applications from US citizens who wish to represent the USA in the IFSS (International Federation of Sleddog Sports) Dryland World Championships November 17-18, 2007, in Piandelagotti, Italy. Some travel assistance will be available. Piandelagotti is located about 120 km southwest of Bologna. The event will…
Mushing USA (MUSA) Holds Organizing Congress
Mushing USA, the national governing body of sled dog sports in the US, held its organizing congress in Marquette, Michigan, July 14, 2007. Among business accomplished was the approval of the bylaws, election of officers and board of directors, creation of standing committees, and the establishment of goals for the…
Mackey loses ESPY to marathoner
Four months ago, Lance Mackey became the first musher to win both the Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race and the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog race in the same year, a feat for years considered impossible. That apparently wasn’t enough to be named the country’s best outdoor athlete.Mackey learned that…
Flying vets gives Igloolik dogs shot of good health
Story by JANE GEORGEThey’re members of team of 11 volunteer veterinarians, technicians and assistants in Igloolik until July 23 where they’re helping the community’s estimated population of 500 dogs and at least one cat stay healthy.At the request of the hamlet, the Canadian Animal Assistance Team is armed with enough…
Balloonists look for lost husky
By MIKE WENDLANDHow’s this for a different sort of search?Hot air balloonists plan to lift off and search rural areas around Milford Saturday for a missing sled dog. “Blue,” a member of a sled team led by Sharon Young of Brighton Township, has been missing since May 8.The search is…
Musher Dean Fairburn drowns on river
Dean Fairburn, an experienced river guide and musher has drowned on the Payette River, Idaho. Please read on from the article published in the Idaho Statesman:http://www.idahostatesman.com/531/story/97073.htmlAn experienced Idaho river guide drowned after the raft he was steering with a group of tourists capsized in the Payette River and his foot…