A trainer sits in the kennel with her greyhound, Jas Strait Aces, and consoles after she had placed last in the annual Stake’s Race at Wheeling Island Racetrack, West Virginia, on October 21, 2023. She tells her dog “It was an honor to even qualify into that race, you did good mamas.” Whether a dog has an amazing race or finishes in last place, they are all given the same after-care treatments and rewarded with a piece of a Little Debbie oatmeal cream pie cookie.