A typical Clumber Spaniel tops out around 16.5 mph in Fast CAT. The fastest one on record ran 25.07 mph. 6.2 mph slower than the typical dog (22.7 mph). Even a typical Clumber Spaniel would beat most people in a 100-yard sprint.
Based on the best Fast CAT run of 153 Clumber Spaniels, a typical Clumber Spaniel tops out at 16.5 mph, and half of them run faster than 17.0 mph. That makes the Clumber Spaniel the 200th fastest of the 226 breeds that have run Fast CAT.
2 Clumber Spaniels have topped 25 mph, but none has reached 30 yet.
Among the most popular Sporting breeds, the typical Clumber Spaniel is the slowest of the 9. The Vizsla is the quickest of the bunch at 24.9 mph, and the English Springer Spaniel (22.2 mph) runs closest to the Clumber Spaniel. Over Fast CAT's 100 yards, the 8.4 mph gap to the Vizsla is about 4.16 seconds.
Bluemoons Leonard Hofstadter holds the fastest consistent run by any Clumber Spaniel: 25.07 mph at the Southern New Jersey Cocker Spaniel Club in New Jersey on April 15, 2022. That's 100 yards in 8.16 seconds.
AKC's results also show Rainsway's Mystery Machine at 26.50 mph, but that dog's next-best run is 20.27 mph. A jump that big is usually a timing or typing error, so we flag it rather than crown it.
Clumber Spaniels come in more than one Fast CAT height group. 71 measured over 18 inches and averaged 16.8 mph; 81 measured 12 to 18 inches and averaged 16.3 mph. Smaller dogs earn extra points per mph toward their titles, so the shorter ones rack up titles faster.
Not really, but more are running. In 2021, 30 Clumber Spaniels ran Fast CAT, typically at 16.7 mph. In 2025 it was 58 dogs at 16.5 mph.
Maryland has the most Clumber Spaniel runs, 847 of them, followed by New Jersey, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania. The fastest Clumber Spaniel run in Maryland is 23.30 mph.
Short legs don't stop anyone from having a blast. Any AKC-registered Clumber Spaniel over 12 months old can enter, small dogs earn twice the points per mph toward their titles, and the crowd always cheers loudest for the little ones. Have someone your dog will run to waiting past the finish line.
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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.