Corgis are short, fluffy and surprisingly speedy. Now, for the first time ever at the Great New York State Fair, visitors can see the four-legged speedsters with their own eyes thanks to a new show called \u201cThe Fast and the Furriest.\u201d<\/p>\n
With their short stature and fluffy rumps, you might not think of corgis as racing dogs \u2014 but that\u2019s exactly what makes it so much fun.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe corgi butt,\u201d Sergie Coronas said. \u201cI mean, come on, it\u2019s all about it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Coronas and his family have been bringing shows to the fair for 45 years now. \u201cThe Fast and the Furriest\u201d is their latest endeavor.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis show is very new; it\u2019s only been a year, not even,\u201d Coronas said.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s the first and only traveling corgi race show in the United States, but the sport in general has been picking up in popularity.<\/p>\n
\u201cCorgi racing is popular,\u201d Coronas said. \u201cThere\u2019s Corgi Nationals; they have corgi racing at halftime shows, so I thought it\u2019d be a great thing where I can bring the show where people can see it more than having to go, maybe go out west or something like that.\u201d<\/p>\n
So far, the fairgoers have been giving the new event a warm welcome.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just really funny and cute at the same time,\u201d Ethan Lawrence, a young fairgoer, said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe response we\u2019ve been getting so far is far and beyond amazing,\u201d Coronas said.<\/p>\n
Coronas says the dogs love it just as much as the people. Corgis are high-energy herding dogs, and Coronas says the racing is not just fun, but great for both exercise and mental stimulation.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re always out, like in a home, in a field, we\u2019re running with the dogs, they\u2019re full of energy, and the idea is to get the energy out of them so at the end of the day we can all relax, but that doesn\u2019t stop them,\u201d Coronas said.<\/p>\n
You can catch \u201cThe Fast and the Furriest\u201d at 11 a.m., 2 p.m., and 5 p.m. daily now through the end of the fair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Corgis are short, fluffy and surprisingly speedy. Now, for the first time ever at the Great New York…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[257,6314,9,11,10,49,48507,12,200],"class_list":["post-336457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-central-ny","tag-natalie-mooney","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-fair","tag-news","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}