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The last two mushers finished the race in Tok last night. Joey Sabin got to the finish at 8:39 p.m. Friday, and Keaton Loebrich was the Red Lantern at 10:34 p.m. for a total of six days, 11 hours and 34 minutes.The 80-mile, 200-mile and other 550-mile racers enjoyed the finisher's award banquet in Fairbanks, celebrating the mushers, the volunteers and the sport of mushing.

Jeff Deeter is the winner of the 2025 Alaska Yukon Quest 550-mile race, and four more mushers have finished the race in Tok.He crossed the finish line at 2:49 p.m. yesterday. It took him five days, three hours and 49 minutes to complete the trail.

It looks like the Yukon Quest may be won as early as Thursday afternoon, as Jeff Deeter is keeping up an average 7-mile-per-hour pace.

All of the teams running the 550 miles to Tok are now out on the Yukon River ice. Another 200-miler scratched early yesterday, and the last finisher in that division came in.

There is a winner in the Yukon Quest Alaska 200-mile race, and one of the mushers in that division has scratched – the rest will likely finish today in Central. Everyone in the race is over the dreaded Rosebud and Eagle Summits, and the first mushers in the 550-mile event hit the ice of the Yukon River today.

27 Yukon Quest teams left Fairbanks yesterday. The leaders have made their way into the third checkpoint of the 550-mile race, but their handlers are stalled on the Steese Highway as an avalanche closed the road Saturday.

The Yukon Quest Alaska starts Saturday in Fairbanks with three sled-dog races – the 80-mile Fun Run, the 200-mile middle-distance event and the big 550-mile course to Tok. Race officials held a “Meet the Mushers” get-together Thursday night, and each racer’s name was drawn to determine the starting order for their event.

Brent Sass is on track to win his sixth Quest race this morning.

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