Ben Matheson
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Ryan Redington’s closest competitors are Pete Kaiser and Richie Diehl -
Eddie Burke Jr. and Hunter Keefe will need to face the windy Bering Sea coast before final placings get within reach. -
Sass said he had been sick the entire race with a bad cold and also had three cracked teeth. -
Jason Mackey says he knows that the Iditarod trail was home for his brother. -
The community of about 140 people is roughly halfway into the race. -
Cold overnight temperatures froze the softened trail into a bobsled track. -
Iditarod contenders are recalibrating their race strategies as the trail pushes through its most remote stretches. -
Hunter Keefe’s dog Senior brings years of Iditarod experience to his musher’s rookie run. -
As the race transitions from big mountains and technical terrain into the heart of Alaska’s Interior, mushers are watching their teams come into race form. -
Iditarod musher Matthew Failor is excited that his leader Mach 10 has picked up a new skill: the art of the trot.
