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NOTES: COL KINE LOCATION: NEW HAMPSHIRE TITLE: SLED - DOG RACE SERVICED DATE: 02/15/77 NO: UPITN NEW YORK 021546 DATE SHOT: RECENT LENGTH: 37 FT SECONDS: 1:02 SOUND: V - O DATE OF ARRIVAL: SLED-DOG CHAMPIONSHIP DERBY HELD IN NEW HAMPSHIRE NOTE: A SLED PULLED BY A TEAM OF DOGS IS A LONG-TIME SYMBOL OF THE ARCTIC. BUT IN MODERN TIMES, WITH MODERN COMMUNICATION AND TRANSPORTATION, THE SLED HAS BECOME OUTMODED. WHILE THE DOGS THEMSELVES -- HUSKIES -- REMAIN A FAVORITE AMONG PET OWNERS, THE IDEA OF A TEAM OF HUSKIES PULLING A SLED THROUGH A SNOWY TERRAIN HAS BEEN LEFT TO A HANDFUL OF ENTHUSIASTS THROUGHOUT NORTH AMERICA. OVER THIS PAST WEEKEND, THEY GATHERED THEIR SLEDS AND TEAMS IN LACONIA, NEW HAMPSHIRE AND RACED EACH OTHER FOR THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP. VIC PIMENTEL REPORTS. VIDEO AUDIO DOG TEAM STARTS :06 THE 1977 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP SLED- DOG DERBY DRIVER ADJUSTS SLED :12 WAS WON BY HARRIS DUNLOP OF BAKERSFIELD, CAPTURING CLOSE TO 2,000 DOLLARS IN PRIZE TEAMS STARTING :22 MONEY. THIS YEAR'S RACE BROUGHT TO LACONIA, NEW HAMPSHIRE THE FINEST TEAMS FROM ALL OVER NORTH AMERICA INCLUDING SEVEN TEAMS FROM CANADA AND ONE TEAM DOG TEAM IN SLOW MOTION :27 TRAVELING ALL THE WAY FROM THE MOUNTAINS OF CALIFORNIA, ABSENT, HOWEVER, WAS LOCAL FAVORITE, AND FIVE-TIME WORLD CHAMPION VARIOUS SHOTS DRIVERS AND RICHARD MOULTON. THE LACONIA DERBY IS THE DIGS :48 MOST PRESTIGIOUS RACE HELD IN THE LOWER 48 (US) STATES, OFFERING OVER 7,000-DOLLARS IN PRIZE MONEY. FOR THREE CONSECUTIVE DAYS THESE TEAMS USUALLY MADE UP OF 16 HUSKIES RACE OVER 20 MILES OF SCENIC BUT EXHAUSTING TRAILS...DOGS PULLING, DRIVERS PUSHING, THEY RUN UPHILLS THROUGH WOODS, AND ACROSS FROZEN LAKES. WINNING DRIVER :50 DUNLOP HAS RACED HERE NINE TIMES, FINISHING SECOND THREE TIMES, AND THIRD THREE TIMES. DOG :55 BUT THAT FIRST PLACE FINISH HAS ALWAYS WINNER :58 ELUDED HIM. HOWEVER, THIS YEAR HIS TEAM WILL BRING THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP TROPHY DOG 1:02 HOME TO BAKERSFIELD, NEW YORK. FROM LACONIA, NEW HAMPSHIRE, VIC PIMENTEL, FOR ABC NEWS. TOTAL 1:02