Yukon Quest 2011 – Day 5
The first ten are in at 10AM CST and it looks like Hugh Neff has a commanding lead, but it is built on taking less rest than the field. If he can keep it up, he should win, but the worse of the Quest is ahead, and there is no way of knowing how long he and, more importantly, his team can maintain this regimen. Thirty-six hours isn’t a long recovery time.
At Dawson
1 Hugh Neff (8)
2 Hans Gatt (13) +2:41:00 [The initial time yesterday was a typo on the site]
3 Ken Anderson (18) +4:55:00
4 Brent Sass (22)
5 Sebastian Schnuelle (11)
6 Allen Moore (24)I
7 Wade Marrs (15)I
8 Dallas Seavey (3)I
9 Dan Kaduce (10)
10 Kelley Griffin (1)
11 Joshua Cadzow (16)
12 Jodi Bailey (17)R
13 Mike Ellis (5)
14 David Dalton (23)Beyond Pelly Crossing
15 Johannes Rygh (6)R
16 Clint Warnke (25)I
17 Tamara Rose (12)I
18 Didier Moggia (7)
19 Jerry Joinson (21)R
20 Hank DeBruin (19)I
21 Christine Roalofs (9)R
22 Kyla Durham (14)RUpdate at 6:30PM CST: Michelle Phillips (4) has scratched at Dawson. She was down to 8 dogs, having had to leave 4 dogs at Scroggie Creek.
The Mushers in bold are former winners of the Yukon Quest, the numbers in parentheses are their Bib numbers, the small “I” indicates a Quest rookie who has competed in the Iditarod, and the small “R” indicates a total rookie.
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