Jeff King has the nickname of "King of the Kuskokwim" due to his mastery winning the K300 river based dogsled race 8 times. He might have to add "King of the Yukon" to his list of aliases as his team has been reeling in the competition since hitting the Yukon river in this year's Iditarod dogsled race. In the 120 miles from Ruby to Galena, King has cut the gap between him and Dallas Seavey from three and a half hours to an hour and 10 minutes. With 84 river miles left to kaltag, maintaining that pace could put him in contention fro the lead. In that span, he has passed Mitch Seavey who was leading the race at Cripple, and moved from 6th to 3rd, with only Dallas Seavey and Aliy Zirkle in front of him. Aliy has shown some decent GPS speed of late clocking a 9.6 mph segment coming into nulato and still has a 12 mile lead over Dallas.
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