the iditarod race is the race in memory of balto
It commemorate the trip that Balto took in the great syrum run.
The dog race commemorates the trip Balto took.
Balto was a Siberian husky sled dog that led is team in delivering the anti-toxin for diphtheria from Anchorage to Nome and he used the Iditarod trail.
The lead sled dog of the final segment of that trip was Balto, a jet black Siberian Husky. That event is memorialized by the annual Iditarod dog Sled race. Balto died of old age at 14. GOOD dog, Balto!
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Some movies that are based on the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race are Iron Will, Mush: The Movie, and the animated movie Balto. There have also been some TV movies based on the races including the 2012 TV movie The Iditarod : Beyond the Race and the 2000 TV movie Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
To commemerate the serem run to Alaska with Balto AND Togo. This race honors those dogs and all the people involed in saving Nome from Diptheria.
The first Iditarod race to Nome was in March 3, 1973
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Balto was the lead dog for the last team of dogs to carry the Diptheria medication to Nome, in real life. Not a wolf-dog. And there was more than one team. From the movie Balto, Balto is the only actual real character.
A Balto-Slav is a person who is a speaker of a Balto-Slavic language or dialect.