Barring moose, caribou, snowmobile, or asteroid, it looks like Allen is going to win this year and make up for his 26 second loss last year. This is based on Live Tracking, and Hugh’s trackers have a history of malfunctioning, but Allen’s two extra dogs on his team seemed to have allowed him to have built up a real lead that Hugh couldn’t overcome in the final run.

The Standings at 11:30PM CST (8:30PM AKST):

At Fairbanks/Finish
1 Allen Moore (11)
2 Hugh Neff (4)
3 Brent Sass (18)
4 Jake Berkowitz (20)
Beyond Chena Hot Springs/Two Rivers
5 Scott Smith (23)^R
At Chena Hot Springs/Two Rivers
6 Markus Ingebretsen (2)^R
Beyond Mile 101
7 Normand Casavant (7)
8 Abbie West (17)
9 Susan Rogan (10)^R
At Mile 101
10 Dan Kaduce (15)
Beyond Central
11 David Dalton (21)
12 Ed Hopkins (25)
At Central
13 Denis Tremblay (13)^R
14 Crispin Studer (26)
Beyond Circle
15 Cody Strathe (5)^R
16 Darrin Lee (24)^R
17 Brian Wilmshurst (1)
At Circle
18 Rob Cooke (3)^R
19 Matthew Failor (14)^R
Beyond Eagle
20 Dyan Bergen (19)^RΦ

These are the official standings. That means they are official, not that they are correct. Things jump around a lot as people decide to update the standings. This problem is especially bad in the back of the pack, as no one bothers to update those standings when the lead is changing.

The Mushers in bold are former winners of the Yukon Quest, the numbers in parentheses are their Bib numbers, and the small “R” indicates a rookie.

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