Editor’s note: Richland Source is posting daily updates on Mansfield native Matthew Failor’s efforts at the 2024 Iditarod Sled Dog Race, which began March 3. Updates post daily at 8 a.m. and may be updated during the day. (UPDATE: Matthew Failor left the Kaltag checkpoint Sunday at 4:27 a.m. Alaskan time after a rest stop […]
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Mansfield native on ‘gold rush run’ Friday morning at the 2024 Iditarod
Editor’s note: Richland Source is posting daily updates on Mansfield native Matthew Failor’s efforts at the 2024 Iditarod Sled Dog Race. Updates post daily at 8 a.m. and may be updated during the day. ON THE IDITAROD TRAIL, Alaska — Matthew Failor was on a gold rush run in the early morning Alaskan darkness on […]
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Ready, set mush: Mansfield native has big hopes for 2024 Iditarod race
WILLOW, ALASKA — Matthew Failor has a lot more responsibilities these days than when he mushed in his first Iditarod Sled Dog Race more than a decade ago. — Husband to Liz, whom he married in 2020. — Father to Theo, born just eight months ago. — Business owner of Alaskan Husky Adventures, which provides […]
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Mansfield native preps for Iditarod with 2nd-place finish in Alaska’s ‘Kusko 300’
BETHEL, Alaska — No one knows better than Matthew Failor that Pete Kaiser is hard to beat on his home track. But the Mansfield native pushed the eight-time champ to the finish this weekend in the 45th annual Kuskokwim 300 sled-dog that begins and ends in Kaiser’s home town of Bethel. It’s the third straight […]
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Racing to the past: Iditarod sled dog success allows Mansfield native to salute Alaskan culture
WILLOW, Alaska — Matthew Failor fell in love with native Alaskan culture during a summer internship at the Mendenhall Glacier nearly two decades ago. That love affair has continued to grow — now shared by his wife of almost three years, their soon-to-be-born first child … and 50 Alaskan Huskies. The Mansfield native recently completed his 12th Iditarod Sled Dog Race, […]