Sled Dog Racing News

The end of the trail is near for Isobel. The nine-year-old Siberian husky-malamute cross will retire in January, five years after she lost her sight.

A blind Canadian sled dog who continued pulling for four years in northern Manitoba is retiring to move closer to her doctor, her owners said.

Musher Oswald "Newton" Marshall arrives in Alaska on Sunday, Nov. 29 to begin intense training for his bid to become the first Jamaican ever to complete the 1,150 mile Iditarod.

The end of the trail is near for Isobel the blind sled dog. The nine-year-old Siberian husky-malamute cross will retire in January, five years after she lost her sight.Some might think a blind sled dog is of no use in the North.

The lines are being drawn, the shouting and finger pointing has started as teams from Bollinger and Cape Girardeau Counties get ready for the 3rd annual Dog Sled Race this Saturday in Marble Hill.

An Alaskan dog sled racer says he obtained an elephant treadmill from the Alaska Zoo to help train his team for the Iditarod race.

Students at a Kokomo alternative school are acting as teachers to an 11-month-old Siberian husky.

It's always good to hear from Marion George, an active member of the Lansing Masonic Lodge 774.

Neglected huskies freed from squalor tottered off a rescue truck Thursday afternoon looking meek, confused and generally pathetic.

Sarah Palin, a one-time beauty queen, a mother of five, the Republican candidate for vice president in 2008, and the former governor of Alaska, has a new incarnation: author.

In Interior Alaska, it is not uncommon to find a team of dogs pulling a sled loaded with a well-bundled musher along any given stretch of open road or trail.

A husky, one of the 97 sled dogs that were seized with the owner's permission in Val Morin near Mont Tremblant, is seen in its cage at a temporary shelter on Tuesday, November 17, 2009.

Central Wisconsin Hub will occasionally post stories from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point's student newspaper The Pointer.

Most every one of us loves dogs. Although they're a chore to clean up after, they do make great company.

On an evening when the Soldotna City Council's scheduled business passed unanimously, a $2,000 funding request spurred the most debate at City Hall Thursday night.

McKinley School now has an unofficial mascot. His name is Kenai, and he is an 11-month-old Siberian husky, who patrols the hallways of the middle school daily, looking for snacks and playmates.

Since starting her mushing career in 2006, Mariah Ahlert has raced in places like Montana, Wisconsin and Minnesota races in Frazee and Bemidji.

School bus drag racing, bathtub racers and robot jockeys, today we hunt: RACY SPORTS.

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