Dallas, John and Martin will all have to wait and watch as some of the other top teams run out ahead of them tonight in Cripple. It's all about strategy at this point, there're obvious reasons why the leaders chose Cripple for their layover destination. Of course, they're not sharing that strategy with the rest of us.
While they are resting, Mackey, King, Seavey, and Schnuelle came pounding up the trail. All are in Cripple taking a breather before pushing on to Ruby. Last night's leaders will have to wait until Friday around 1:30am before continuing on. With King's impressive speeds, Dallas will be lucky if he stays 7 hours behind the 4 time champion. But Dallas has the drive and the energy to keep up, so long as the dogs hold out.
In other trail news, a seventh musher has scratched - bib #2, Linwood Fiedler, scratched in McGrath the official reason given by the press release was "best interest of the dogs". He had 11 dogs still racing when he scratched.
Speaking of dogs, if you see a dog named "Whitey" running by himself somewhere near McGrath, contact Justin Savidis who is hanging out in McGrath on his 24 hours hoping Whitey will return. If the dog is not found soon the team will have to withdrawl/be disqualified.
Some decent articles from those professional reporters (even if they don't do basic fact checking.)
Young Seavey has drive - ADN.com
Cripple has a long history of taking the steam out of teams! - IditarodBlogs.com
Pack of icons bears down on leaders - ADN.com
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