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Iditarod looks for relevance as race across Alaska starts

by Associated Press
| March 9, 2020 12:05 AM

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — When 57 mushers line up Sunday for the official start of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, it will be the second-smallest field in the past two decades. Only last year’s field of 52 was smaller.

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