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If it's breed showing I can help lots! I have about 10 years experience in the breeding showing world and have shown many breeds.

First thing you do is find your rings and what time you'll roughly be on. Your friend should have the numbers and, if not, you'll get them at the show. When you're about to go in tell the steward it's your first time. With the greyhound, don't worry about anything and just have fun! Talk to the dog a lot and don't worry where you place. Try and be calm when standing still, and excited when moving. Spend quite a bit of time with them, especially the younger one. Going for a run before hand is also a good idea as it'll burn off some of their energy and make them more manageable.

While waiting (showing is like 90% waiting isn't it?) Watch other people show to get an idea of what will be asked of you when you go in.

Showing went well yesterday, for me, Odie got 2 2nds and a 1st, Luna got 3 1sts. JD the TB decided he was a rodeo horse and not a showing horse so he didn't even place. He did get a special for the 'have a go' showjumping, I feel awful though because he is a showjumper/3 day eventer so it wasn't really anything testing for him. Still a fun day to be had by all.

@MoonAcre it's quite a common thing here. One field for warm up and show ring, another smaller field for dog show. It's mainly local and county shows that do this, not many of the bigger ones do. My favourite show to go watch is The Great Yorkshire, everything competes there

A follow up on what Confluence said, I've been to a dog show where there was also a cat show! It was held at a pet expo, and there were also horses there. But it was terrible, where the placed us....If you tried to move you were essentially in your neighbours space! And due to this the area between the tarps where everyone sets up for grooming and waiting and the rings was small, which led to the public sometimes blocking people from getting into the rings....