Racing Sled Dog News

BSHRA Rendlesham Race - 19th/20th November

"Returning to the UK after our trip to the Dryland World Championships in Germany, we stayed down in England to attend the first two races of the British Siberian Husky Racing Association championship.

Still uncertain whether some of our dogs had recovered sufficiently from their bruised pads and our new re-homed dogs (AKA the refugees) competing at their first event, the teams were conservatively chosen for the first day of racing.

John's weakened 6 dog team for Saturday, picked up a second place just 5 seconds off the winning slot, with one of his strongest dogs, H, off the team having rested his tender feet all week, running on my 2 dog team to see how he would cope with being back in harness. As expected, I took the class by storm securing a comfortable lead, but sadly that heat was then voided as it transpired that a few competitors had taken a shorter trail due to incorrect trail marking.

Sunday, John took his ‘Dream Team' in the 6 dog class. The report from the ‘split time marshall at the mid point of the trail was that John had ‘Bust a Wheel' but was just 1 second behind the winning team at that stage. Uncertain of the extent of rig damage, I waited anxiously at the finish line, fairly certain that John's determination or otherwise described as stubbornness, would mean that he would not change a habit of a lifetime & not complete something he had started by turning the team back to the van without completing the trail.

The extent of the ‘Nightmare' behind the ‘dream team' became apparent when John took the last turn and ‘ploughed' the sandy incline of the finish straight. The frame had split, the left wheel was at dragging the ground at a 45 degree angle and the footplate scraping the ground! (see photo)

Just 10 seconds off second place, John still manages a podium slot finishing 3^rd in a class consisting of 17 teams.

The ‘refugees' all came through their first race very comfortably in their respective classes & we now look forward to them securing their places in our competing teams."

Mary Carter

Full results can be seen here

http://www.huskyracing.org.uk/results2011/Rendlesham11.htm

(posted 06/01/2012)

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