KBJR-TV in Duluth, Minnesota, featured this article on Saturday, November 29. Photojournalist Wyatt Buckner. Reprinted with permission, Kevin Jacobsen, News Director, KBJR-TV. Blake is originally from Heron Lake, the son of Richard and Dianne Freking. Both Blake and his wife, Jennifer, competed in the 2019 John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon held along the north shore of Minnesota.
FINLAND, MN — Winner, and runner-up of the 2019 Beargrease shows us the work required to train a family of sled dogs.
Come winter, a lot of eyes are on sled dog racing here in the Northland, but what not many get to see is just how much work goes into training and raising a whole team of racing dogs.
We had a chance to visit Blake and Jennifer Freking, the winner and runner-up of the 2019 Beargrease, at their kennel in Finland, MN where they have sixty-two Siberian huskies.
Sixty-two may seem like a lot, but that doesn’t stop them from providing each of the dogs with special attention. According to Jennifer, “They all have names. They all have nicknames. You have to know everything about them.”
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