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BABY JESUS DUMPS MONKEY, SMOKES ASSMAN

“Baby Jesus gave me wings and I flew over the handlebars and ate gravel!” laughed an enraptured Susie Rogan after her shock win over Snowpig's Assman at the Yukon Gardens Hot Hounds races Saturday. Rogan continued “it may have been dirt, sure as heck tasted like it, but it tastes better than the crow Jon Lucas (of Snowpigs) now has to eat!” This win marks the culmination of 15 months training to avenge defeat by Skijoring snowpigs in a Carbon Hill race long ago that everyone else has forgotten about. A spokesman for Snowpigs read from a prepared statement to the effect that “they (Snowpigs) have never eaten crow nor will they, as it is a protected bird, and they will accept the rematch on 25th August at the Marsh Lake Community Centre”.

In other races 3 drylanders broke with tradition, threw away their wheels, and ran the one mile race on foot with their pet dogs in the first known CaniCross event the Yukon has seen. Tycho the greyhound dragged Bill “The Running Man” Stewart to a commendable victory over the Keno/Heather Desmarais scooter team but couldn't dent Asha the Rotties' winning time of 5.06.

Tony Radford was out and went for an early bath in the 1 mile 1 sled-dog when Tar decided enough was enough and he could cycle the damn' bike on his own if he wanted to carry on

A refreshed Tony went on the crush the opposition and take the 4 mile 2 sled-dog race with ease.

So began the Hot Hounds Dryland Races season at Drag N Fly Kennel. The weather was cool and damp, spirits high, dogs happy (even those that weren't really sure what to do!), and the hospitality provided by Lee Kirkpatrick and Jim Hajash by hosting the race and pot-luck BBQ second to none. The three, wheeled races will be joined by a seperate Canicross (tie a dog to yourself and run as fast as you can) race at the Phillipe's Bike Repair Hot Hounds races, MLCC 25th August, complete with pot-luck BBQ and bar. Be there at 6.30pm, ...if you think your dogs are hot enough.

All details at www.copperhaultwister.blogspot.com ...where all the cool dogs go (in winter)

Results

1 Pet Dog, 1 mile

1 Asha - Jon Lucas - Scooter - 5.06
2 Aklak - Dave Desmarais - Scooter - 6.03
3 Tycho - Bill Stewart - Canicross - 6.05
4 Keno - Heather Desmarais - Scooter - 6.10
5 Swell - Rosemary Stewart - Canicross - 7.41
6 Molly - Rachel Kinvig - Canicross - 7.45

1 Sled-Dog, 1 mile

1 Baby Jesus - Susie Rogan - Bike-jour - 4.24
2 Assman - Jon Lucas - Scooter - 4.52
3 Brodie - Carolynne Fujda - Bike-jour - 5.26
4 Tar - Tony Radford - Bike-jour - 9.40

2 Sled-Dog, 4 mile

1 Tony Radford - Drag N Fly - Bike-jour - 13.47
2 Alex Seroljukov - Gatt Kennel - Bike-jour - 14.34
3 “Sky High” Duc - Sky High - Bike-jour - 14.49
4 Jon Lucas - Drag N Fly - Scooter - 14.54