The husky bloodlines developed at a Carcross kennel continue to see stellar results in the sport of mushing.

William Kleedehn won the 225-kilometre Cinnamon Bun Run on Sunday, earning a fourth straight victory in the race for his kennel, which he shares with 2015 race champ Crispin Studer.

For the victory, Kleedehn and his 10 dogs earned a cash prize of nearly $600.

Kleedehn topped the race field of 11 mushers with a time of 12 hours, two minutes – 16 minutes ahead of runner-up Gerry Willomitzer.

Martine LeLevier took third, just over 50 minutes back of the leader.

After a six-hour mandatory layover in Braeburn, the two mushers left only one minute apart.

Mushers and skijorers followed the trail of the recent Yukon Quest.

“It was warm, but not too warm to run,” Kleedehn said. “But it was pretty rough because of that. There was lots of frozen-over mudholes and moguls and rough trail sections.”

In fact, Kleedehn said he crashed twice quite early in the race, once watching as his team continued on without him, before his sled snagged on some willows.

His other crash sent him flying into a tree.

Kleedehn said he enjoyed travelling with Willomitzer during the second half of the race.

“It was kind of fun to finally see a dog team in a race,” chuckled Kleedehn, who was the second musher to start the race, Saturday morning.

“If you never see another dog team, it’s boring. And with those rough sections, I was thinking: if I crash out, at least I have another dog team around for support.

“I knew, if need be, I would have some energy reserve left in my team if it came down to it.”

Heading into the homestretch, Kleedehn lost Willomitzer, however, and a potential photo finish never materialized.

His team included some of the same dogs from the group driven by Carolin Leipert that won the Carbon Hill race in January, Kleedehn confirmed this morning.

In 2014, Kleedehn won the mid-distance race – previously known as the River Runner – in unique fashion, after he was thrown from his sled a few kilometres away from the finish.

He eventually crossed the finish line on foot.

Studer also won the 2013 River Runner, which then had competitors mushing to Mendenhall and return.

The duo has bred and groomed dogs to succeed in mid-distance racing, and Kleedehn – a two-time Yukon Quest runner-up – said longer-distance races aren’t really on he and Studer’s horizons.

“Maybe Crispin wants to run the Iditarod just to see it,” Kleedehn said.

His huskies’ bloodlines trace back to the kennel of late Alaskan sprint legend George Attla.

Meanwhile, 26-year-old Magnus Kaltenborn won the race’s skijor division Sunday, beating his lone rival Cynthia Corriveau to the finish line by more than one and a half hours.

Kaltenborn completed his journey in 14 hours, 58 minutes.

“I thought it went pretty well,” said the Annie Lake resident. “It’s far. You can wear yourself out in the beginning, so I tried to let them do the work. I didn’t ski too much.”

Towed along by four huskies, Kaltenborn fixed a studded rubber mat to the top of his pulk, which was tethered between him and his dogs.

In steep downhill sections, Kaltenborn flipped his pulk, which then became a rudimentary drag brake.

Just prior to arriving in Braeburn for his layover, Kaltenborn said he attempted to remove his skis for a final steep downhill section.

That plan failed, however.

“The dogs were too excited, and dragged me down on my face,” he said.

For his victory, Kaltenborn took home $380.

The frontrunners weren’t the only ones who had tall tales to tell following the odyssey.

Sixth-place musher Kyla Boivin encountered a porcupine along the trail and spent an hour removing quills from its unfortunate victims.

Jean-Marc Champeval was the lone race scratch, quitting in Braeburn.