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Jessie Holmes tends to his team after parking in Ruby. The frontrunners in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race began to reach Ruby, a village on the Yukon River, on March 13.
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For the second year in a row, Jessie Holmes and Paige Drobny are jockeying for the top spot. “That’s my closest neighbor, 26 miles away. It’s hard to root against her,” Holmes said shortly after pulling into the Yukon River checkpoint at Ruby just before 5 a.m. Friday.
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