A typical Petit Basset Griffon Vendeen tops out around 18.1 mph in Fast CAT. The fastest one on record ran 23.73 mph. 4.6 mph slower than the typical dog (22.7 mph). Even a typical Petit Basset Griffon Vendeen would beat most people in a 100-yard sprint.
Based on the best Fast CAT run of 149 Petit Basset Griffon Vendeens, a typical Petit Basset Griffon Vendeen tops out at 18.1 mph, and half of them run faster than 18.5 mph. That makes the Petit Basset Griffon Vendeen the 183rd fastest of the 226 breeds that have run Fast CAT.
2 Petit Basset Griffon Vendeens have topped 25 mph, but none has reached 30 yet.
Among the most popular Hound breeds, the typical Petit Basset Griffon Vendeen is faster than 1 of 8. The Greyhound is the quickest of the bunch at 32.9 mph, and the Beagle (19.7 mph) runs closest to the Petit Basset Griffon Vendeen. Over Fast CAT's 100 yards, the 14.9 mph gap to the Greyhound is about 5.12 seconds.
Clancy's Impossible Things holds the fastest consistent run by any Petit Basset Griffon Vendeen: 23.73 mph at the American Kennel Club in Florida on December 17, 2023. That's 100 yards in 8.62 seconds.
AKC's results also show Mirepoix's Sparks Will Fly at 29.30 mph, but that dog's next-best run is 17.30 mph. A jump that big is usually a timing or typing error, so we flag it rather than crown it.
Not really, but more are running. In 2021, 26 Petit Basset Griffon Vendeens ran Fast CAT, typically at 18.0 mph. In 2025 it was 60 dogs at 17.5 mph.
North Carolina has the most Petit Basset Griffon Vendeen runs, 345 of them, followed by Texas, New Jersey, Ohio. The fastest Petit Basset Griffon Vendeen run in North Carolina is 21.56 mph.
Any AKC-registered Petit Basset Griffon Vendeen 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.