The Iditarod, a 52-year-old annual dog sled race from Anchorage to Nome, has been embroiled in controversy after one of the mushers was forced to kill a moose only to violate rules by neglecting to gut the animal properly.Iditarod officials on Wednesday imposed a two-hour time penalty on musher Dallas Seavey for not properly gutting the moose he killed during the race earlier this week. Race marshal Warren Palfrey convened a three-person panel of race officials to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of the moose, which became tangled up with Seavey and his dog team early Monday, about 12 hours after the dayslong race officially started. One dog was injured in the encounter and flown back to Anchorage for care.
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