A delighted Mary Carter stormed home to win the World Sleddog Championship 2019 with her homebred six-dog team all fuelled entirely on CSJ dog food.
This year’s Championship saw competitors travelling to the UK for the first time and was held at the Firle Estate on the South coast of England on 16th and 17th November.
Mary commented: “The trail had something for everyone... trails meandering in open grass fields, narrow woodland trails, straights, chicanes, hills, winding fast downhills, grass, dirt, sticky clay, mud, hard packed trackways, chalk, and floods!”
Her winning team consisted of five brothers - Xenon (more about this special dog another time) and Copper in lead, Titan and Promethium in team, with Thor at wheel - alongside their cousin, Rod.
Mary and husband John, who also took a bronze in the 8 dog class despite eventually only running with six dogs, own the Satanta Huskies and spectacular Bowland Trails … the only purpose built sleddog training centre in the UK with seven miles of trails set in 218 acres.
The couple are both multiple Gold Medal winners with a glittering array of silver and bronze prizes too since starting to compete with their own dogs in the early 1990’s.
Eldest son George is following in their tracks and finished 4th in his first outing in the World Dryland Championships junior category with 2 dogs.
Satanta Huskies also hit the heights for their good friends - Lucy Van Zwanenberg who finished a very respectable 8th place in the largest class of the day with a four-dog team and Anna Williams on the podium with a Silver medal in the Ladies Veteran Bikejor class – huge congratulations to them too.
The photo (courtesy of Christian Helm) shows Mary and her six dogs powering out of the start chute … clean at this point!!
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