Dick Mackey

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Dick Mackey

American sled-dog racer

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Lance Mackey
…the son of champion musher Dick Mackey, grew up in Alaska, where he was exposed to dogsled racing from an early age. When he was a toddler, his father helped found the Iditarod Trail Seppala Memorial Race (later named the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race), which stretched about 1,100 miles…
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…the son of champion musher Dick Mackey, grew up in Alaska, where he was exposed to dogsled racing from an early age. When he was a toddler, his father helped found the Iditarod Trail Seppala Memorial Race (later named the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race), which stretched about 1,100 miles…
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