What are dogs (not the woof kind)?
Sometimes you will hear the phrase “the dogs were up” (or similar). This means that horses that were galloping / working that day were doing so around the dogs, which essentially are cones used to keep the horses away from the inside rail. It is common when a dirt track gets a lot of rain that training will take place with the “dogs up”, so as to avoid having the dirt track wash away along the inside. Sometimes they will also put the dogs up on the turf track just to protect parts of the turf course.
