Iditarod Musher Profile

Brent Sass, 28, was born in Minnesota.  He moved to Alaska in 1998 to attend UAF.  After school he made Alaska home and purchased land in Fairbanks.  He started Brentwood Enterprises in 2003, a cabin construction and rental business located in Fairbanks's Goldstream Valley.  In 2004 he became interested in mushing and got his first sled dog from a neighbor.  Later that year he went to work for Susan Butcher and David Monson and got his first experience with racing sled dogs.  He started his own kennel, Wild and Free Mushing in 2005 and has been raising and training his own dogs since then.  In 2006 he won his first race, the Yukon Quest 300. He has competed in many mid distance races and two Yukon Quests, finishing 5th in 2008.  In the summer months he maintains his rental cabin business and works at Trail Breaker Kennel giving sled dog presentations.  In 2009 Brent will be running a set of young dogs in the Iditarod to start building a competitive team for future races.  Brent is planning on running both the Yukon Quest and the Iditarod in 2009.