A good dog with great genes – 1920s Alaska sled-relay hero Balto
Balto was found to share ancestry with modern Siberian huskies and Alaska and Greenland sled dogs, as well as Vietnamese village dogs and Tibetan mastiffs.
WASHINGTON — In 1925, a handsome male sled dog named Balto led a 13-dog team that braved blizzard conditions during the grueling final 53-mile (85-kilometer) leg of a 674-mile (1,088-kilometer) dogsled relay, bringing lifesaving medicine to the Alaska city of Nome during a diphtheria outbreak.
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