Yesterday was spent at the Los Alamitos racetrack, watching the weiner dogs race.
The location was an honest to goodness racetrack, which was actually functioning that day, so there was a wonderful combination of grizzled veteran of playing the ponies and families with ballons and screamin children. Even better, they would run a horce race, and these magnificent monsters would pound past. Then, they'd bring out a tiny little start gate and a bunch of weiner dogs would run the same track that the horses would just on.
Well, "run" was a stretch, because a lot of them would sniff at the ground, or each other, or wander toards the fans. Only a few would actually run towards the finish line, little lithe weiners bounding over the dirt and towards glory.
Even better than that were the spectators, who were the dog-obsessed sort that you normally only see in Christopher Guest movies. One woman told me her daughter-in-law found out about the race the internet, but "We don't have one of those machines yet. If I did I'd spend all day on it staring at weenie dogs!"
Costumes abounded, as did weiner-dog themed t-shirts on human and dog alike. The winners of each heat were photographed with a man in a hot-dog suit. Although enthusiastic, the crowd did not join me in chanting "Wei - Ner Dogs! Wei - Ner Dogs!" Nonetheless, it was a day to remember.
In summary: If you must go to only one weiner-dog themed sporting event, I would reccomend the Weiner Dog Races.
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