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Jamaican choses dogsled heat over sunny beach
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Online Pioneer Plus
February 6, 2009

JDamion Robb could be at his home in the tropics. Instead, he is braving ice and snow to race sled dogs in Canada.

Robb raced in Marmora last weekend in the four-dog, four-mile sprint and the six-dog, six-mile sprint. He placed third in both heats.

“He’s a full-time dogsled tour guide in Jamaica,” says Daniel Melville, Robb’s boss and chairman of Chukka Caribbean Adventures in Ocho Rios, Jamaica. Melville traveled with Robb from Jamaica.
Unlike local dogsledders who train on snowy Ontario trails, Robb runs dogs in Jamaica with a dry land dogsled rig. Melville discovered the device in Edmonton, inspiring him to begin the tours in Jamaica. Robb has been working with him for three years.

“I have always loved animals,” says Robb. “I wanted to be part of the dogsled tours.”
In order to set up professionally, the company called in experts – Alan Stewart, who began dry land racing in Scotland a number of years ago, and Ken Davis, a competitive musher from Twig, Minnesota....

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