Organisers of the Iditarod have praised runner-up Hans Gatt for running a "great race" this year. The Canadian musher finished the Last Great Race with a sled dog team that "anyone would be proud of", Bruce Lee remarked on the official Eye on the Trail blog. Gatt’s achievement was made even more remarkable by the [...]

Although he takes the sport seriously enough to have won the Iditarod four times in a row, Lance Mackey still finds time to have fun during the Last Great Race. This is according to Eye on the Trail blogger Bruce Lee, who spoke to the Fairbanks veteran after last week’s victory. He said Mackey found [...]

Competitors and officials from the Iditarod celebrated the successes of this year’s Last Great Race at a special meal over the weekend (March 21st 2010). The annual Finishers’ Banquet was full of standing ovations and a positive mood, according to the event’s official Eye on the Trail (EOTT) blog. Numerous prizes were handed out to [...]

The Iditarod finishing line is in sight for rookie Newton Marshall. Currently in 47th place in the Last Great Race, Marshall has left one of the last checkpoints, White Mountain, and is nearing Nome. With a number of rookies – such as Kathleen Frederick and Pat Moon – having scratched over the last couple of [...]

The competitors in this year’s Iditarod raced with their sled dogs and dog harnesses on a "magic carpet" of a course. This is according to the event’s Rookie of the Year Dan Kaduce, who told the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner he was pleased to finish in 21st place. He put much of his success down to [...]