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 ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Relatives of a musher disqualified during last month's Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race for allegedly abusing his dogs pleaded with race organizers to show leniency in deciding his punishment.
"I want to live in a society where you get second chances," Mike Carter, the great uncle of two-time runner up Ramy Brooks, told the race's board of directors Friday. "Don't take him out for life on this thing. That would be the wrong thing to do."
Brooks, 38, was disqualified from the 1,100-mile race after witnesses said they saw him punch and kick some of his dogs and hit them with a ski pole when they refused to leave a checkpoint during a March 13 stage in Golovin, less than 100 miles from the finish in Nome.
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