Tailwind Kennels

05/11/2024

Happy Birthday Myron Angstman!!! Thanks for giving me my first real job, best lead dog and so many fun dog memories. 🐾

11/10/2024

01/10/2024

Happy national black dog day!

26/09/2024

Rip Dr. Stu the Iditarod’s head veterinarian. We are so lucky to have had your hard work, experience and leadership as a part of the Iditarod for so many years. Thanks for all the time you spent in the cold so we could have a dograce❤️. Also thank you for facilitating sled dog research and its trickle down to companion animal health. As a vet and Iditarod musher I was lucky to know you and we had so many great sled dog conversations🐾

31/08/2024

Our favorite place, favorite month and favorite race❤️

The Kuskokwim 300 Race Committee is proud to announce yet another purse increase for the 2025 K300, which is scheduled to start on Friday, January 24. Teams in the 46th Annual Race will compete for $200,000 in prize money, an increase of $15,000 from last year. The top finisher will now take home a....

03/05/2024

Great day visiting Mrs. Wilson’s class. What a great group of students!

25/03/2024

The first 3 days of the 2024 Iditarod we enjoyed nice temperatures and besides the first 40 miles of the burn, great trails. In Nikolai I had to repair my sled bag with dental floss after a run in with a boulder while on a very bumpy section between Rohn and Nikolai.

22/03/2024

Only picture I got in the burn. To read a description of this section of trail visit: https://iditarod.com/zuma/virtual-trail-journey-the-trail-from-rohn-to-nikolai/

21/03/2024

Iditarod startline photos
Thanks Toni Reitter❤️
Lead dogs Radar and Sally both 9 yrs old

16/02/2024

Busy busy week!
✅ All food for dogs and Jessica cut, packaged and shipped out on the trail
✅ All dogs received their pre-race blood screening ( CBC and chemistry panel) as well as 12 lead EKG’s
A few steps closer to Nome🐾

Comment below to guess how many pounds of kibble, beef, chicken, salmon and other treats were shipped out for the team and Jess to eat on the trail. 🙌

Interested in sponsoring the dogs and Jessica as they mush to Nome? Or maybe you want some kennel apparel? Visit our website: https://www.tailwindkennels.com/copy-of-2019-main-sponsors

12/02/2024

Goose Bay 160! 🐕🐕🐕
Fun race, close to home with the best atmosphere where the volunteers and competitors are all your friends❤️ What a good race. 🐾🐾🐾
Sam finished in 2nd place. He took a little detour this morning going on the wrong trail towards Deshka but got back on the trail and then worked hard to catch up to the speedy Sled Dog Systems Racing team run by Dakota. Sam says he’s tired after running up most of the hills. This course has a lot of hills! So proud of Sam who finished with his whole team looking bright and with the same leaders: Missy and Sally who finished the kusko 300 with me!
Sam had a exciting race after he hit a stump pretty hard in the first 5 miles of the race, broke the bridle for his sled ( where the main dog lines attach to the sled) and had to rely on his hooks catching to stop the team. He did his Sam thing and MacGyvered the sled to make the course. Good thing we love our sled makers and they just happened to place 3rd place and will help us repair the sled in the coming days. Good job Sam our most recent Iditarod qualified musher!💪

Mary ran another exceptional race earning her another Iditarod qualifier! Not to be outdone by Sam, Mary also wanted to add a few miles to her run. Hahaha just kidding. But she also found the detour and her and the team added a few more miles before getting back on the trail and I am sure they kept smiling despite the hiccup. Wahoo! Go Mary, we have loved having her train and race with us this winter. The day before the race Mary also assisted me with an abdominal exploratory surgery! Wow, it been a busy week. Mary ran a smooth race and also finished with her whole team running Cleo and Radar to the finish in lead. It’s also worth noting Bug and Lindy finished making this their first dograce! These youngsters ran across the finish line barking!🎉big thanks to Turning Heads Kennel for letting Mary borrow Lexi and Shak!

Biggest thanks to the Tug Bar for hosting this event and feeding our mushers as well as the superb vets, vet techs and volunteers. This race is just fun to be around! Also to Tj and Dana for your help at the start!🐾

Also could not have accomplished the weekend without the help of our longest supporters:Mom Klejka, Sam’s parents, Mike ( Jessica and Sam’s kindergarten PE teacher) and Cathy Lucas.❤️

Now it’s time to prep for our next race: The Iditarod 🙌
Jessica

11/02/2024

Same spot just got Mary’s team. Hopefully she gets turned around. Must be a weird trail split here.

11/02/2024

Nothing like watching your husband go the wrong way to wake you up in the morning.
Dograces! Well it looks like the dogs tried to take a trail to Willow. Sam was running the wrong way for a little bit but is back on track. Dakota from Sled Dog Systems Racing went the right way and pulled ahead and is now in 2nd. Looks like Sam and team back tracked and are back on the trail.
Dog racing is never dull.
Mary is still moving along. 🐾

11/02/2024

Goose Bay 160 (correction actual a 160 mile race this year). According to the working trackers 🙌 Sam is running in 2nd place and Mary is running in 5th. Still 40-50 to go and so many good mushers and friends running closely with our teams. 1st place Emily is running a team of last years Iditarod champ Ryan Redington dogs. Sam has been trading places back and forth with Dakota whose family Sled Dog Systems Racing builds our favorite sleds. Sam is racing my new sled dog system sled.

Mary is running about 9 miles back from Sam 🙌 she took an extra 1 hour break on the way up yesterday since she has a few of our younger/ less mature race dogs. She is currently being tailed by our friend Anna Berington and Lev .

Currently the temperature at our house is reading 29 degrees. Way too warm for a fast run but I have to admit it’s nice to have a little break from the -30/-40’s we raced and trained in the last few weeks.

Also having a good race and currently running in the top 10 is Jessi Downey. Jesse’s and her mom are great fur sewers and her mom made Lucy’s famous beaver hat.

Can’t wait to see our team and friends finish and hear some trail stories. ❤️🙌🐾 As usual it was hard to sleep when there is a dograce going on!
Good thing I will be joining the pups for our next race the Iditarod. Hope to see everyone there.
If your local watch todays trackers and join us at the Tug Bar to watch Mary and Sam finish🥰🥰🥰
Jessica

11/02/2024

Link to the trackers: https://trackleaders.com/goosebay24f.php Sam Is #11 and Mary not far behind is #5.

And she’s off. Mary and team have left the halfway pt so now all of our dogs ( literally our whole yard minus old many Bailey and the tractor pups) are heading home to the finish!
It’s fun to have the entire kennel trained up enough to run a 150 mile race. Special thanks to our friends Turning Heads Kennel for letting us borrow 2 dogs: Shak and Lexi to fill out a full team for Mary.

Sam’s team:
Radar Sally
Ralph Siri
King Brownie
Malcolm Ginger
Chai Star
Earl Paul

Mary’s team:
Radar Jasmin
Hasty Cleo
Lindy Bug
Yogi Scout
Ruble Cortana
Lexi Shak

Embeddable tracking application, live tracking event map for Goose Bay 150 2024, leaderboard coverage, including links to individual track history pages