When Iditarod musher John Baker held up a tiny pup with still-shut eyes, it was hard to imagine the animal growing up to pull him a thousand miles across the frozen tundra and mountains.
IDITAROD WRAP UP: If the race gave an award for pure, old-fashioned, American tenacity, this year's winner would most certainly be Montanan Celeste Davis.
Musher Celeste Davis, who hit a tree early in the race, came down Nome's Front Street at 8:06 p.m. Saturday to bring to an end the 2010 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
The man who lives a life of danger asked his Iditarod dog team to go too fast too soon and in the end it cost him his dream, making him the second Scot to scratch.
Redemption was waiting for musher Scott White in Nome in the next 24 hours. All he had to do was get his seven remaining dogs to grind out one last 80-mile march to grab it.