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VIDEO: Dog-sledder Leigh, of Derby, ‘seconds away’ from winning medal at world championships

  • November 17, 2013
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A 41-YEAR-OLD man says he was “seconds away” from winning a medal in the world championships of sled dog racing after his rigs broke.Leigh Marsden was racing eight of his Scandinavian hounds at the two-day event in Italy.He ended up in fourth place after the steering on his cart failed while racing on the three-and-a-half-mile woodland track.Read more here: http://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/Dog-sledder-Leigh-seconds-away-winning-medal/story-20089506-detail/story.html

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