--- title: T-Rex Race Video Is an Absolute Delight description: The Emerald Downs race track in Washington state hosted a T-rex race, and the video of the unusual event is now viral. canonical: https://time.com/5622674/t-rex-race/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-07-09T14:50:44.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:59:25.951Z og:title: Take a Well-Deserved Break With This Video of a T-Rex Race og:description: Who needs horses when people dressed up as T-rexes will do? og:url: https://time.com/5622674/t-rex-race/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Take a Well-Deserved Break With This Video of a T-Rex Race twitter:description: Who needs horses when people dressed up as T-rexes will do? twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # T-Rex 'Dinosaurs' Race Down on a Horse Track As Fast as Their Inflatable Costume Legs Can Carry Them  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Jul 9, 2019 2:50 PM UTC  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Jul 9, 2019 2:50 PM UTC Horse racing [can be thrilling](https://time.com/4765278/kentucky-derby-2017-information/) to watch. But dinosaur racing? That’s a different story. Thankfully, despite the fact that our prehistoric friends [went extinct](https://time.com/5226166/dinosaur-footprints-scotland-isle-of-skye/) 65 million years [ago](https://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dinosaurs/extinct.html), one horse racing track has brought back the ever-popular (and generally terrifying) [Tyrannosaurus rex](https://time.com/4864214/t-rex-tyrannosaurus-top-speed-run-running/) in its own way for a bit of racing fun. The Emerald Downs track in Auburn, Washington shared a [now-viral](https://www.facebook.com/EmeraldDownsRacetrack/videos/593369857857615/?%5F%5Fxts%5F%5F[0]=68.ARCYRIUnJZ3SPkHPog413hyMZ4xMYxeBTkT3NsgoWEgEmXEW3metbUB70nrZ%5Fht4TLAkd08fdpgUvwHPSWwPV3LTikpgy%5FxAN6nLcDSxxahUKmjENvIQeAdDSRQc%5F-g4w3iyIB3sERDLcmJOIJR2NU%5FK6CbjrBgdUjaVNQSjhp3luKutAVkUmGjkVJelNS-nY4BrOClQbCFFPSiPWFfC4Ge2brlbjVLEPP%5FFNox34-t2wjATTxxYyrk1qAYpSo2ywtPTOwloEVY1n%5FpObHpNUyBupq-lm7Bxh7Qfi84mwYPrX3UYy8WaoaZtIeiLN57NG0kMNRS255ZeDYFT0XbF9QxU-I2ZdA&%5F%5Ftn%5F%5F=-R) video over the weekend of a new type of competition on its property, featuring a crowded field of about two dozen T-rex characters. (Don’t worry, this isn’t a [_Jurassic Park_](https://time.com/5313949/real-dinosaurs-jurassic-world-fallen-kingdom-jurassic-park-fact-check-checking-history/) incident; it’s simply a group of runners dressed up in giant blow-up T-rex costumes, stumbling as fast as they can over the track towards a finish line.) Inflatable T-rex costumes are [nothing new](https://time.com/5071509/dad-dressed-as-t-rex-goes-viral/), but you probably haven’t seen this many of them congregated in one spot, attempting as best they can to go as speedily as they can. Why are they doing it? Who is behind the costumes? What does the winner receive? All questions that spectators may have, and answers we have not yet procured. But it looks like it was a pretty good day to be in the Emerald Downs crowd even beyond the T-rex race: the other events listed on the [track’s calendar](https://emeralddowns.com/event/wiener-wannabe-races-2019-07-07/) were “wiener and wiener wannabe” races, featuring adorable [dachsunds](https://time.com/5130863/puppy-bowl-2018/). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5622674/t-rex-race/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5622674/t-rex-race/"},"headline":"T-Rex 'Dinosaurs' Race Down on a Horse Track As Fast as Their Inflatable Costume Legs Can Carry Them","datePublished":"2019-07-09T14:50:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:59:25.951Z","description":"There was also a dog race","url":"https://time.com/5622674/t-rex-race/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5622674/t-rex-race/","name":"T-Rex 'Dinosaurs' Race Down on a Horse Track As Fast as Their Inflatable Costume Legs Can Carry Them"}}]}] ```