Hilarious.  It is more like simultaneous wandering.  The gates fly open to release the hounds and they run in circles, rub noses, sniff everything, and generally do just about anything except move toward the finish line.  Owners sit at the finish line and encourage at the top of their lungs but a dachshund goes where a dachshund goes.  Heats end with owners scurrying around the race track gathering up their wayward charges.  All this plus craft booths, food trucks, butterfly releases, and a scare crow competition at the Jasper, Texas Butterfly Festival.