Lance Mackey, a colorful musher who was a four-time winner of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, died Wednesday.
In 2008, Jeff King finished second behind Lance Mackey after a late-race deception that became Iditarod legend.
They were the first two racers to arrive in Elim, less than 125 miles from the finish line in Nome, thereported. When Mackey began preparing his dog team to take a rest, King did the same. The ruse worked. After King fell asleep, Mackey sneaked out and built the lead he needed to win his second straight title, according to the newspaper.
“He got me hook, line and sinker,” King recalled. “He took booties off and put out straw, all the signs of somebody who is going to park the dogs for a while. He gambled that I’d doze off feeling safe.” When Mackey wrote a book several years later, King’s signed copy included a personalized inscription that read, “If you snooze, you lose,” theIn 2007, Mackey became the only musher to win both the Iditarod and Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race in the same year, according to
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