Rick’s father, Dick Mackey, won the race in 1978, and his brother Lance won four straight Iditarods from 2007 through 2010.
Rick Mackey sits on the back of a pickup truck after finishing the 1981 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in 9th place on March 20, 1981.
Rick Mackey was born in Concord, New Hampshire, on May 1, 1953, and moved with family to Alaska in 1959. Their love and the start of what is now the world’s most famous sled dog race have been intertwined from the start. She and Rick handled dogs at the start of the 1974 Iditarod. He ran his first race a year later.They married in 1977. Brenda was born a year later, and son Roland was born in 1996.
“All through our life, we’ve been fortunate enough to be able to have that kind of lifestyle and bring our children up in an environment that not too many people get the privilege” of experiencing, she said.
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