Race Season

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Brent Sass looked like he had a comfortable lead Monday night over Dallas Seavey, heading into his final Iditarod run from White Mountain to the Nome finish.

Man holding a flag in the air. Snow machine racers about to start on snowy trail

This year’s Nome-Golovin champion was open-class racer Tre West, who finished with a time of 2:05:50. West has been racing in the Nome-Golovin since he was 18, and has competed in other regional snowmachine races as well — he won the Archie Ferguson/Willie Goodwin Sr. Memorial Snowmachine Race in 2018.

The 1,000-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race has a new champion.

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Brent Sass is poised to win this year’s Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.

Brent Sass has tightened his grip on the lead in the Iditarod, blazing the trail ahead of five-time champion Dallas Seavey.

Mushers Brent Sass and Dallas Seavey arrived at the checkpoint here overnight Saturday and into Sunday morning, setting up a showdown between the two top teams as they charge toward Nome.

Iditarod musher Brent Sass and his 12-dog team raced out of Kaltag at 10:36 a.m. Saturday, holding onto the lead of this year’s race.

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Iditarod teams have finally gotten some respite from the warmer-than-usual weather and challenging trail conditions that marked the first week of the race.

Brent Sass continues to lead the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race as he mushes along the Yukon River toward the coast. Sass blasted through the checkpoint here at Ruby early Friday, a tiny Athabascan village.

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The annual Nome-Golovin Snowmachine Race kicks off at noon on March 12, 2022. About 60 racers registered on the night of March 10, which is about average for the Nome-Golovin, Race Manager Kevin Bahnke said.