When the world's most famous sled dog race opens in downtown Anchorage on S...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - When the world’s most famous sled dog race opens in downtown Anchorage on Saturday, it will be in many ways a scaled-down event compared with past contests.
And the prize purse will be about $500,000, the same as last year but still less than the $750,000 of previous years. Indeed, most of this year’s Iditarod mushers are small and wiry, said Buser, who weighs about 200 pounds .The Iditarod, commemorating the 1925 rescue mission that used a dog-team relay to deliver life-saving diphtheria medicine to the Gold Rush town of Nome, runs nearly 1,000 miles .
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