Whooaa!

Look at Newton as those mutts kick off with the rig being tested for the PBS program Design Squad. ....can't wait to see this episode~
Hold on Newton!!!!

Smile for the Camera!

Associate Producer Michael Rossi of the PBS programme Design Squad, poses with one of the Directors of Chukka Caribbean Ltd Daniel Melville Jr and our very own Hannah Wright, Group Projects Manager.
Michael and his team were filming the JDT on Monday July 28th, for an episode of the TV program which will air very soon on PBS.

PBS Design Squad-shooting and soaking up the sun in Jamaica with the JDT!

Jamaica Dogsled Team Joins with "Design Squad" TV Show

The Jamaica Dogsled Team is teaming up with the Emmy award-winning reality competition show DESIGN SQUAD! DESIGN SQUAD on PBS (pbs.org/designsquad) features two teams of three aspiring college-aged engineers, led by 20-something host, inventor and mechanical engineer Nate Ball, as they work on a design project. We asked the cast to design and build snow sled rigs for dryland training that can be used on grass, but feel like they are running on snow. The two designs built by Design Squad's competing teams will be tested and judged by Jamaica Dogsled Team members Newton Marshall and Damion Robb, and the winning rig will be used in the team's summer practice sessions to help them prepare for winter competitions.

The episode will air soon on PBS - keep checking back here for more information!!

Ranchman's

From bobsled to dogsled: Danny Melville at the famed Ranchman’s in Calgary, Alberta, Canada admiring a permanent exhibition of the Jamaica Bobsled Team’s gear 20 years after that team’s historic participation at the 1988 Calgary Olympics. Ranchman’s played a co-starring role in “Cool Runnings” the feature film based on the Jamaica Bobsled Team. Melville was on-hand for the Calgary Stampede.

Pictured left to right: George Davidson, Consultant, RepeatSeat Ltd.; Aaron Wyers, Operations Manager, Ranchman's; Danny Melville, founder Jamaica Dogsled Team, CEO Chukka Caribbean Adventures; Bob Christianson, C.O.O. RepeatSeat Ltd.

Eastwood

Dr. Richard Watts checks out Eastwood

Health update! Eastwood, a member of Newton's dog team who went with him on the Percy and will be going to the Quest, has been having problems with his eyes. Susie Rogan looked on as Dr. Richard Watts, optometrist extraordinaire in Whitehorse, examined Eastwood and found that he has a cloudy cornea secondary to a high ocular pressure (glaucoma). With Timolol .5% medicine given twice a day to reduce the pressure, Eastwood should be back for a checkup later this week to make sure he is recovering well.

Dr. Watts said "Eastwood was very calm and behaved better than the majority of human patients I have to work with!"