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MUSH MON!
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National Post
By Samantha Grice
Weekend Post
Saturday, October 13, 2007

At first I thought my hearing was off. Did I want to go to Jamaica to write a story about the Jamaican dogsled team?

Dogsled? You mean bobsled, I corrected my editor. Of course, everyone had heard of the first Jamaican bobsled team, the stars of the 1988 Calgary Olympics as well as the subject of the 1993 film Cool Runnings.

But it was she who corrected me. No, dogsled, she replied.

Then she showed me the pictures. There, hurtling through a tract of lush Jamaican fields, was a pack of the rangiest, motliest, happiest mutts you've ever seen, hauling a metal contraption that looked like a wide-track tricycle, the "musher" standing on its back rail driving the pack on. Sun, sand, sea, cool drinks, good food -- and dogs. It couldn't miss.

Which is how I found myself at the beautiful Chukka Cove Farm near the tourist town of Ocho Rios, on the north-central coast of Jamaica: Picture a turquoise ocean on one side, lush hills on the other, punctuated by magnificent waterfalls and cool mountain rivers....

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