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JAMAICA has a dog sled team!
The Sun
Updated March 9,2010
Newton Marshall has become the first Jamaican to compete in Canada's biggest dog sleigh race.
The annual 1000-mile « Iditarod » competition is a gruelling trek across the Canadian Yukon from Anchorage to Nome.
Marshall told local TV: "I'm just feeling happy, as you see the smile on my face, I just can't wait to get out on the route."
It usually takes about ten days to complete the race.
The Iditarod commemorates a 1925 rescue mission to deliver medicine to Nome after a diphtheria outbreak.
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