Sentences with phrase «legendary musher»

Siberians caught the eye of the public when they began winning sled races in the early 1900s, but they made headlines in 1925 when a legendary musher Leonhard Seppala led a relay of Siberian Huskies 658 miles in only five and half days to rush a lifesaving serum to Nome, Alaska, where an epidemic of diphtheria had broken out.

Not exact matches

«The bloodlines of my dogs date back 100 years,» says Lance Mackey, Larry's owner and legendary racing musher, the only person to win the long - distance Iditarod and the Yukon Quest in the same year with the same dog team.
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