Sebastian Schnuelle

Hugh Neff has won the 2012 Yukon Quest crossing the finish line in Whitehorse at 5:14 a.m. Tuesday and winning by 26 seconds, the closest finish in race history and the only time the first two teams have come in less than one minute apart.   Neff captured victory in the 1,000 mile sled dog race by beating Allen Moore in a wild sprint to the finish.  At one point, Moore had a 42-minute lead out of Braeburn.  Neff, traveling...

by Channel 2 News staff Friday, March 13, 2009 ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Two-time defending champion Lance Mackey retook the lead in the 2009 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race late Friday night as the trio of competitors who passed him in Anvik  presumably settled in for their mandatory eight-hour layovers in Grayling . Earlier Friday four-time champion Jeff King , Yukon Quest winner Sebastian Schnuelle ...

Although only 23 years old, Dallas Seavey entered the 2011 Yukon Quest already owning an impressive track record in sled dog racing. A veteran of two career Iditarod top-10 finishes, the third-generation musher came into his first Yukon Quest surrounded by talent. The race featured several Iditarod teams, but at the tail end of the 1,000 mile race, teams began being adversely affected by the conditions. Hans Gatt, Dan Kaduce, and Hugh Neff, who led most of the race, all scratched after fighting stormy weather.

Martin Buser's decision to take an early 24-hour layover in the 2013 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race apparently paid off as he took the race's lead Thursday, leaving one question on observers' minds: Can he keep it? As of 2:45 p.m. Thursday, race standings showed Buser as the first musher out of Iditarod at exactly 2 p.m. Lance Mackey claimed a $3,000 prize and a seven-course meal for reaching the race's midpoint at 8:36 p.m. Wednesday, making the 80-mile run from Ophir to Iditarod in 14 hours, 51 minutes.

by Andrew Hinkelman and Channel 2 News staff Monday, March 8, 2010 ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Paul Gebhardt  took back his lead in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race  Monday night after Sebastian Schnuelle had passed him earlier in the afternoon. Gebhardt stayed in Rohn just 15 minutes, leaving just after 8:30 and passing the first three mushers to arrive there: Schnuelle, John Baker  and Zack Steer . Sven Haltmann  arrived in Rohn shortly after Gebhardt.

by Andrew Hinkelman and Channel 2 News staff Monday, February 15, 2010 ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Hans Gatt pulled into his adopted hometown of Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, victorious in the fastest Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race on Monday, shaving nearly a day off the previous record. Gatt, a native of Austria who has now won the 1,000-mile race from Fairbanks to Whitehorse four times, held off Lance Mackey, himself a four-time champion who returned this year after one-year hiatus.

by The Associated Press Wednesday, March 11, 2009 TAKOTNA, Alaska -- Aaron Burmeister was the leading the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race as of about 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, but others were jockeying to pull ahead. The Nenana musher pulled into the Takotna checkpoint at 2:44 a.m. Wednesday, followed at 3:03 a.m. by Skagway's Hugh Neff . Sebastian Schnuelle -- a Canadian fresh off a win in the 1,000-mile Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race -- arrived at 3:14 a.m. Defending champion Lance Mackey arrived at 4 a.m., followed by former winners Jeff King and Mitch Seavey . Takotna is 712 miles the finish line of the 1,100-mile race to Nome.

by The Associated Press Monday, March 9, 2009 ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Two-time defending champion Lance Mackey has moved from fourth to first place, and is the first musher into the Rainy Pass checkpoint early in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race . At midday Monday, Mackey was the only musher to have arrived at Rainy Pass after having negotiated one of the steepest parts of the 1,100-mile trail where it descends sharply into...

by The Associated Press Wednesday, March 11, 2009 TAKOTNA, Alaska -- Four-time Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race champion Martin Buser breezed through the tiny town of Takotna , spending less than a minute Wednesday before jumping on his sled runners and snatching the lead. He checked into Ophir a little before 5 p.m. Buser chose to push on but other mushers -- many of them the superstars of the sport -- were pausing in Takotna, giving their teams a long rest at the checkpoint about 700 miles from the finish line in Nome . There was a method to their madness, they said.

by Channel 2 News staff and wire reports Friday, March 13, 2009 ANVIK, Alaska -- Two-time defending champion Lance Mackey was the first musher in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race  to reach Anvik and is being treated to a gourmet dinner for arriving first. Church bells rang out Friday to welcome Mackey as he pulled into the Yukon River community, 500 miles from the finish line in Nome. He is being feted with a seven-course meal that includes braised pork belly, Alaska bouillabaisse and duck breast prepared by a chef flown in from Anchorage.