around 5 years but if they still enjoy it carry on!!!

In Australia the majority of "champion" greyhounds will finish their racing careers well before the age of 4 years. Champion female greyhounds will probably go on to have puppies and champion males may go to stud. "Average" greyhounds (as long as they are injury free and as it says above, if they're still enjoying it) can carry on racing for as long as they want - there are a couple of greyhounds currently still racing at nearly 6 years of age!

You shouldn't really race them at all as its a cruel sport and they do not enjoy it themselves. I could say the same with horse racing.

Whoever comes in last will receive the Red Lantern Award.

They get the Red lantern Award as the last Musher off the Trail and get to extinguish the light. Their real reward is they finished a very grueling 1000 mile race just them and their dogs.

extreme conditions.

The first to finish the race. The race starts on Willow Lake and ends in Nome. It is about 1000 miles long.

The Iditarod always starts on the first Saturday in March, with a ceremonial start in Anchorage. The restart is the next day.

· $69,000 - 1st place in Nome

· $3,000 in Silver Dollars & Trophy - 1st musher in Iditarod (the town)

· Seven-course gourmet dinner flown in from a fancy restaurant in Anchorage - 1st musher in Anvik

Dog racing is not legal in South Carolina.

As sled Dogs are generally kept in large numbers, most owners will keep the Dogs chained to kennels outside. This may sound cruel, but the Dogs are usually well fed, live near their own kind and are regularly taken out racing or pulling sleds. This is the case with most professional sled Dog owners as they could not possibly keep all of their Dogs in a house with them. The majority of working sled Dogs are kept to work, not as pets.

During the early years of the Iditarod Race, the mushers only traveled the northern trail. After several years, the Iditarod Board of Directors realized that the smaller villages were being heavily impacted by the race coming through their village year after year. It was decided to use both sections of the trail.

This decision had a three fold effect. The northern villages of Ruby, Galena and Nulato only had to deal with the large group of mushers, press and volunteers every other year. The second effect was that the race was able to pass through the actual ghost town of Iditarod. Lastly, the villages of Shageluk, Anvik and Grayling were able to participate in the race.

iditarod.com/learn/iditarodtrail.html

It is a dog in the Iditarod who is "dropped" because he cant go on because he is sick, injured, ect.

Its actually 1,112 miles long on even years. I have a take-home test and I recently learned this from the Iditarod website. So I am definetly correct!

over a distance of up to 400m to 500m a greyhound would be faster because it hit's full speed within 5m. A horse would be faster over a longer distance.

You have to be atleast 21 years and older to enter the Iditarod race.

Something historic happened

well Inuits attached their dogs to sleds using ropes made from seal guts

NO! This is not at all correct! "Seal guts" were considered food. Historically and even today many arctic mushers still use very long (up to 18 feet) thin strips of bearded seal to create the "tuglines" that attach from the back of each dog's harness to the "bridle" that attaches to the front of the "qamutiq" (sled). This long material was actually ONE piece of seal hide. Although the bearded seal is only about 9 feet long, the strips were cut in a circular pattern going around and around the seal's body from head to tail allowing for one long continuous piece of leather. Each tugline was made with a loop at one end for a bone or antler toggle at the end of the sealskin harness to go through. The other end had a piece of bone or antler with a hole in it through which the leather of the sealskin bridle went through to attach all the tuglines to the qamutiq.

1. The Iditarod received more attention outside of the state after the 1985 victory of Libby Riddles, a long shot who became the first woman to win the race. Susan Butcher became the second woman to win the race and went on to win three more years.

The object is to have the best time in the race. This race is historical. It shows how man and dog can survive the harsh conditions in Alaska.

German shepherd

There have been 38 Iditarods.

Greyhound tracks in the United States are uniformly a quarter of a mile in circumverance.

The most common race distance is 5/16 mile. This starts down in a chute that extends beyond the start of the home stretch.

The next most common distance is 3/8 (6/16th) of a mile. This starts near the far turn on the backstretch.

Other common distances are 7/16th and 3/16th, both of which start near the head of the backstretch.

Rarely, a 9/16 distance race is run, sometimes known as a "Super Marathon". It begins in the same place as the 5/16 race does, and the greyhounds make two full circuits.