Jamaican musher completes 1,000-mile race

In what is being described as a major coup in extreme sports, a former horseback-riding guide has become the first Jamaican and the first black man to take part in the gruelling Yukon Quest dog race in Alaska.
Just like the 1990s blockbuster bobsleigh film Cool Runnings, Newton Marshall has crossed all boundaries in the freezing Alaskan outback, finishing 13th in the toughest dogsled race in the world.
Not only has Marshall placed Jamaica's name in another history book but, having won the hearts of almost the whole city of Fairbanks, Alaska, he also has them in shock that a man from the tropics could endure such severe weather conditions.
Under the tutelage of champion musher, Hans Gatt, Marshall's extraordinary journey to the unlikely setting began in 2005 when, while working as a horseback-riding guide in Jamaica, he got a call from his boss, Melville of Chukka Caribbean Adventures, asking him to take care of some dogs the company had adopted.

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