A typical Carolina Dog tops out around 25.7 mph in Fast CAT. The fastest one on record ran 31.13 mph. 3.0 mph faster than the typical dog (22.7 mph). The fastest Carolina Dogs outrun Usain Bolt's top speed by 3.3 mph.
Based on the best Fast CAT run of 54 Carolina Dogs, a typical Carolina Dog tops out at 25.7 mph, and half of them run faster than 26.1 mph. That makes the Carolina Dog the 11th fastest of the 226 breeds that have run Fast CAT.
Only 2 Carolina Dogs have ever broken 30 mph, and 35 have topped 25 mph.
Among the most popular Hound breeds, the typical Carolina Dog is faster than 5 of 8. The Greyhound is the quickest of the bunch at 32.9 mph, and the Rhodesian Ridgeback (24.7 mph) runs closest to the Carolina Dog. Over Fast CAT's 100 yards, the 7.2 mph gap to the Greyhound is about 1.73 seconds.
Sweet Carolina Good Bones holds the fastest consistent run by any Carolina Dog: 31.13 mph at the Lawrence Jayhawk Kennel Club in Kansas on October 15, 2022. That's 100 yards in 6.57 seconds.
AKC's results also show Stella Sunshine On My Shoulders at 32.99 mph, but that dog's next-best run is 29.60 mph. A jump that big is usually a timing or typing error, so we flag it rather than crown it.
On Dash-Hound, the fastest Carolina Dog is Aspen, with a best of 28.85 mph over 61 logged runs.
Michigan has the most Carolina Dog runs, 227 of them, followed by Ohio, Colorado, Florida. The fastest Carolina Dog run in Michigan is 29.01 mph.
Any AKC-registered Carolina Dog over 12 months old can enter, and your dog runs alone down a straight 100 yards. Most dogs figure out the lure fast. Have someone your dog will run to waiting past the finish line, because a dog that stops to check on you can lose a second or two.
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Speeds from AKC Fast CAT results. Photographers: spotted your work? Tell us at [email protected] and we'll credit it or take it down.