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• The Iditarod race in Alaska got off to a messy start, Sporting News reported.
On the first day, musher Jesse Holmes went mano-a-mano with a moose that became aggressive toward his dogs on the trail.Holmes punched the moose in the nose and went on his way.
Soon after, Dallas Seavey and his dogs came upon a moose -- it's not clear whether it was the same one -- that was "threatening and belligerent."
When the moose got entangled with his dogs, Seavey dispensed with the heroics and shot it.
As per the Iditarod's rules, Seavey then stopped for about 10 minutes to field-dress the moose, but he was later assessed a two-hour penalty at the next checkpoint because "the animal was not sufficiently gutted by the musher."
A third musher, Wally Robinson, ran across the moose carcass in the dark, on a trail curving through woods.
Race Marshal Warren Palfrey confirmed that "we are making sure that every attempt is made to utilize and salvage the moose meat."
So there's that. [Sporting News, 3/7/2024]