Wellcome to year 2010. It is now 100 years since the Siberian dog, later to be known as the Siberian Husky, finished first in the legendary John "Iron Man" Johnson team in the 1910 All Alaska Sweepstakes.
On the Siberian Husky Club of Amerika You can read: "On the strength of their showing of speed and, particularly, endurance under the most trying conditions, Fox Maule Ramsay, a young Scotsman then in Nome and a competitor himself in the 1909 race, went to Siberia in the summer of 1909. Travelling up the Anadyr River to the trading settlement of Markovo, Ramsay procured around 60 of the best specimens of the breed he could find. He entered three teams of Siberians in the 1910 All Alaska Sweepstakes race, one for each of his uncles and one he drove himself. The team entered in the name of Col. Charles Ramsay and driven by John "Iron Man" Johnson, a Swedish Finn, came in first with an elapsed time of 74 hours, 14 minutes, 37 seconds, the best ever time for the 408 mile race held annually through 1917."
HAPPY TRAILS in 2010...
