Dogs in the team of musher Tom Schonberger race down the trail during the Chugiak Dog Mushers Association’s Purebred Spring Fling races on Saturday, March 9, 2019 at Beach Lake Park in Chugiak. (Matt Tunseth / Chugiak-Eagle River Star) - Chugiak, Alaska 
Huskies hit the trail at Beach Lake Park
Willow’s JP Norris was the big winner Saturday at the Chugiak Dog Mushers Association’s Purebred Spring Fling races at the CDMA trails at Beach Lake Park in Chugiak.
Norris won the 8-dog (12-mile) and 6-dog (6-mile) races at the event, which attracted eight teams of Siberian Huskies to the association’s trails on Beach Lake Road.
Norris’s wife Kari Skogen finished second in both the 8-dog and 6-dog races, with Wasilla’s Wayne Curtis third in the 8-dog race and Tom Schonberger third in the 6-dog.
Emile Toledanu won the 4-dog race by just over a minute.
The season is not yet over at the CDMA trails. On March 16 the association will host the Junior Spring Fling junior races starting at 10 a.m. and the 36/20 night races starting at 6 p.m.
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