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Owner of Famous Dog Spencer
To Have New Pups At Race In His Honor
4/7/2024 12:15 AM PT
Owners of Spencerthe late Boston Marathon canine, will maintain the decade-long custom alive, tapping their new pups, Jimmy and Jadeto carry the #BostonRobust flag on the well-known race!
TMZ Sports spoke with Rich Powers following Spencer’s statue unveiling in Ashland State Park — simply over a yr after the doggo passed away following a most cancers battle — concerning the golden retriever’s significance to runners, in addition to the dogs who will try and comply with in his paws.
“It is a tremendous statue for such a tremendous pup,” Powers informed us. “It was like having an angel dwelling in my home for almost 14 years. We shared him as greatest we may and this was a strategy to maintain sharing him and galvanizing.”
After Spencer died, Powers bought new remedy dogs, two English cream golden retrievers named Jimmy and Jade, and the plan is for them to carry the flags as hundreds of runners go by alongside the marathon route.
“[Spencer] was buried with one among his units of flags together with a marathon medal,” Powers mentioned. “One, if not each, can be there on marathon Monday in entrance of the statue holding a set of Spencer’s flags.”
“Jimmy is doing properly with holding the flag. Jade is just 4 months old and is in course of.”
The 128th annual Boston Marathon goes down on Monday, April fifteenth … and runners, within the midst of one of many hardest issues they will ever do, can count on to see Jimmy (and presumably Jade) there holdin’ it down for them … and making Spencer proud.
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