Togo (1913 – December 5, 1929) was the lead sled dog of musher Leonhard Seppala and his dog sled team in the 1925 serum run to Nome across central and northern Alaska.

2021年8月27日 · Seppala traveled all the way to New England and took on a team of local Chinooks in a friendly sled dog race. With Togo in the lead in what would be his final race, the much-smaller Siberians...

2025年1月22日 · Most people think of Balto as the heroic dog who saved the town of Nome, Alaska, from an outbreak of diphtheria in 1925, but Togo the Siberian husky was the head of the sled dog team that ran 260 miles in frigid blizzard conditions to help deliver the antitoxin.

2019年12月13日 · The true story behind Togo confirms that as a result of his relatively small size, illness, and bad behavior as a young puppy, Leonhard Seppala decided that Togo was not sled dog material and gave him away to be a house pet when he was six months old.

Named after Heihachiro Togo, a Japanese Admiral who fought in the war between Russia and Japan (1904-05), Togo was the lead sled dog of Leonhard Seppala. Seppala was a Norwegian breeder and racer of Siberian huskies from the Chukchi Inuit stock of Siberia.

2025年1月28日 · Clad in a thick fur coat, Alaskan sled-dog musher Gunnar Kaasen stood next to the hero of the moment: Balto, a Siberian husky who’d helped deliver medicine across a frozen frontier to halt...

2020年3月2日 · Leonhard Seppala, already a dog racing legend, set out to retrieve the serum from Nenana. His beloved Togo, a husky named for a Japanese admiral, was in his typical lead position.

A January 1927 photo shows Alaskan dog racer Leonhard Seppala as he brings his team, led by Billikin and Togo, into Poland Springs during the first day race of the Maine Dog Derby [Getty Images]

Togo was a sled dog owned by Leonhard Seppala. He was Seppala’s lead dog in the 1925 serum run to Nome. His team ran the longest and most dangerous part. [1] [2] Togo’s half brother Fritz was also part of the team. [3] Balto, another dog who took part, became the most

2025年1月23日 · The longest stretch of the relay was 91 miles, completed by the famous Leonhard Seppala—then considered one of the best mushers in Alaska—and led by sled dog Togo. Seppala had already traveled 150 miles from Nome to meet the relay midway, intercepting a team led by Henry Ivanoff.