YQ1000: Team Roster

Allen goes into this race as defending champion with ten of the same dogs he started and finished with last year. Commando and Dutch return to defend their Golden Harness award, brothers Spark, Nomex and sister Violet return also. Junior is back after having a litter of pups during the summer. Clyde and his son Rodney will run the trail together again while Felix starts his fourth Quest and Champ his third.

New to the team this year, but not new to the Quest trail are little girls Chipper and Amber. Allen has two Quest rookies – Iron and Bruno. Iron was unlucky to miss out last year and three year old Bruno steps up to the big time as the first of the “Golden Harness” themed litter from Quito and Kosak. A few of his siblings will follow him down the trail with the Red Team.

Find out more about each athlete on our Dogs Page (click the red link) and click on the images below to make them bigger.

As the teams have been given the option of starting with as few as eight dogs for the first leg due to trail conditions the final starting line up will be confirmed last minute. We’ll let you know once they leave who is running to Braeburn. Additional dogs may be added in both Carmacks and Pelly Crossing for safety.

Unluckiest dogs were Driver and Kodiak. Driver missed out making the team at the very last minute when he pulled up on the last training run with a sore toe. We had it x-rayed and while it is not a serious injury he was uncomfortable and we were not willing to put any miles on him until he had a week or two of rest. We’re hoping he is back up and running (literally) for the next big race. Kodiak pulled up sore after the Copper Basin and has been resting since then but he was telling us he was up for it, right up until the trucks left the driveway.