We did end up having one more race late in
March, Kelly took a 6 dog team to the Eden Mtn sprint race and
ran the 'open' mileage 6 dog class. She won both days!
We only had two races, but we had great results. Her team
was Tracker &
Dodge in lead, Lincoln &
Quest in team, and
Storm & Decal in wheel.
We purchased three new dogs this spring, two
adults from Karen Ramstead, and one puppy from Mike & Kathy
Carmichael of Utah. We also leased a female from Karen for
a litter.
Let me introduce you to our new kennel members:
NorthWapiti's Skor - a
4.5 year old dilute black & white male, leader. Skor is a
fabulous distance dog, who ran and finished the Sheep Mountain
150, Goose Bay 120, Copper Basin 300 and Knik 200 in 2006.
He also made it onto Karen's Iditarod team (for the 2nd time)
but was dropped in Nulato, over 700 miles out. Skor is a
very nicely balanced dog, who we might play with in the show
ring. He is very handsome and a easy dog to live with.
We got to take him out for a quick spring training run and were
VERY happy with what we saw. We have always been huge fans
of Karen's "Chocolate Bar" litter and can't believe we own one
of them! :) Skor is also a son of one of our very favorite
dogs, Grover. We have two other sons of
Grover, our most
trusted race leader, Dodge, and a very promising yearling,
Togo.
NorthWapiti's Rainy
- a
1.5 year old, almost all white female (she has a gray stripe
down her back). Rainy has more energy than any Siberian we
have ever seen. Constantly happy and playful, and not
afraid of a thing. We totally adore her. She has
incredible movement, one of the nicest moving Siberians we have
ever seen. We would love to show her, but the very tip of
her ear never came up. We were
blown away by how hard she drove on the training run we took her
on - we think she has a very bright future ahead of her .
She is out of Karen's awesome boy
Moses and her mom is
Kaylinn,
a great and proven producer. Rainy is a half sibling to
our Lincoln (same mother).
Carmack's Myst At Kelim - a 5 month old black and white
female puppy. We just picked her up a few days ago and are
very happy with her structure and type. She is out of
Karen's
Herman
and
Roary. If she grows up to run
anything like her dad she should be unstoppable in harness :)
Her sire is just plain awesome. Her mother is a very nice
upcoming star in Karen's kennel too!
NorthWapiti's Kluane - Kluane was
leased to us from Karen for a litter. We think we are
going to breed her to our Lincoln, but
Skor could also be a
possibility. There are pros and cons to using each male :)
Kluane is a 6 year old Anadyr female. Kluane has settled
in well and is a very friendly and playful girl. We were
very happy with how she ran on the spring run, and can't wait to
fully train her up after her litter. She is a proven
producer, previously having a litter of 2 pups that went on to
make many of Mark & Karen's teams in the 2006 race season as two
year olds. (Knik 200 etc) We love her previous pups,
Q and
Jinx! Makes us even more excited we get to have a litter
with her!
We are missing training season, but
have been attending breed handling and obedience classes.
We are planning to bring
Skor, Tracker,
Viper, Fury,
Stryder and Myst
to a local match show this weekend. We have also just
entered the Yankee Siberian Husky
Specialty on June 2nd in Wrentham MA. That is always
our favorite show of the year. We entered
Skor, Tracker,
Viper, Fury,
Stryder, Storm
and Ares.
After this show
Holly is getting spayed (she is 7 yrs
old and has no future breeding plans) and
Storm neutered before moving to his new home with Scott &
Linda Isabelle. There Storm will hopefully be a main
leader (or at least main team member) on their race team.
Storm will live there with a few other 'Kelim' dogs, including
his son, Blizzard. We are really going to miss Storm, but
know he will get to race more and get more attention there.
Isabelle's live close by, so we will get to see Storm all the
time.
That's all the news for now!
