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THESE UNDERDOGS LOVE TO RUN
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TwinCities.com
PioneerPress
Feb. 03, 2007
BY LAURA YUEN

Jamaican dog musher Devon Anderson has taken in haggard street pups and turned them into sled dogs with surprising success.

However, there is one thing he had never done — mush a pack of dogs in a race on actual snow. He'll get his chance this weekend at the St. Paul Winter Carnival on Harriet Island. He already took a couple of spills in northern Minnesota earlier
this week while practicing for the exhibition races.

The Jamaican Dogsled Team? Don't we mean "bobsled"?

That's what everyone asks, Anderson said. That initial puzzlement often leads to new fans, he said.

"I think it's the old idea, just as the bobsled was, 'How did Jamaica get involved?' " Anderson said. "It's nowhere near anything that Jamaica has ever thought of or done. It's just the uniqueness about it."

Of course, there's a little show business motive behind it, confessed Anderson's boss, Danny Melville, who founded the team a couple of years ago after he came across a wheeled cart in Edmonton, Canada....."

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