If he wins, Dallas Seavey will have overcome a penalty earlier in the race for not sufficiently gutting a moose he shot after it attacked his team.
Musher Dallas Seavey puts a booty on one of his dogs before leaving White Mountain in first place in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Tuesday, March 12, 2024. WHITE MOUNTAIN – Dallas Seavey was awake two hours before his scheduled departure time from White Mountain and chatting with third-place Iditarod musher Jessie Holmes inside the city building here, which serves as headquarters for the checkpoint. The two were talking about strategies for running dogs.
Seavey said some of the more experienced dogs who’d run the Iditarod before might’ve had an inkling that they were about to finish the 1,000-mile race. “Obviously, it’s what you dream of all year long, what you daydream of all year long as you prepare this team and train them,” he said. “So on one hand, yeah, it’s easy to drift into the future and say, ‘Is this really real?’ you know. ‘Are we actually going to get number six?’ And then you kind of have to pull yourself back.”
“You know, the race gives us a reason to do it well,” he said. “I don’t do this because of the race. I do this because I love this, and I love the experience of training dogs and developing them. The race gives us a purpose to do it to the best of our ability, every single day, drive for it, and that’s what the race provides me at least.”
Locals rang the bell atop the Evangelical Covenant Church as Seavey mushed into this village on the banks of the Fish River a few minutes before midnight, led by his veteran dog Prophet. The younger dogs couldn’t find a good, hard-packed strip of trail, so he put the older Prophet in the lead dog position, even though he’s not as fast or as excited about leading, Seavey said.
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