British Siberian Husky Dog Racing Championships
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each Marshall tank when you’re
marshalling there is the Mac and the
legal document that they sent us D 2.4
and the juniors and scooter 1.9 ok now
the temperature is due to not need to go
high but it is something
I mean even to look at them I think most
people would say they are as close in
appearance as you would get to a wolf
and that really does go back to nature
doesn’t it you know you do feel like
you’ve got nature with you all the time
their temperaments there they’re willing
to please on the trial
off the trial they’re easy to live with
you know they they love doing their job
I mean you’ve been around here for a
couple of hours or so this morning and
you only have to listen and look what
those dogs are like when they’re hitched
in ready to go I mean they’re so so
eager which is a you know their premiere
trait they are a sled dog
it is incredible fun it’s incredible
hard work but within our championship
fun is the name of the game because you
have within a you know we’ve got 260
entries this weekend somebody’s got to
come first
somebody’s got to bring up the tail yeah
at the end of the day the one that comes
last has fun the one that comes first
has fun
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a good team is a is a team which is
trained and conditioned very well but
primarily they’re all with the same
ability and that’s the that’s the key
thing and and that’s the the biggest
issue I suppose we’re running bigger
teams is the fact that you need six
seven eight dogs that are all of equal
ability because you can’t have seven
quick ones and and an eighth one which
is very very slow you’re only as slow as
or as quick as your fastest dog so it’s
it’s maintaining that balance through
the team which is which is critical and
of course then training nutrition
conditioning our use training
conditioning in separate sentences
because training is their ability to
turn left turn right accelerate up hills
maintain their speed going down hills on
flats and so conditioning is actually
muscle CV and you know it gets quite
technical and scientific at that point
we use Eskimo commands and that’s been
inherited I suppose really whore for
left and G for right I tell mine to get
up a lot of people tell them to you know
pick up or dig in or whatever you know
each to their own you know it’s provided
it and most the dogs understand that
they you know they’re there needed to go
quicker well is fairly commonly used on
you know down long down hills take it
easy and the other one which is critical
of course is on by which is kind of
taken I suppose from from sheepdogs
really and in terms of you know loose
dogs squirrels deer you know anything
that fences its way coming out onto the
trail and even then even people just
walking you know dogs can get just for a
second they just you know switch off and
and you need to give them that on by
command and that focuses their thoughts
and gets them past whatever it is that
you think might be interrupting their
their vision really at that point
because they are in total concentration
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Oh
put it
Oh
woody
good boy Sally
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again is all he was running for about a
week
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