A typical Pharaoh Hound tops out around 26.4 mph in Fast CAT. The fastest one on record ran 33.59 mph. 3.8 mph faster than the typical dog (22.7 mph). The fastest Pharaoh Hounds outrun Usain Bolt's top speed by 5.8 mph.
Based on the best Fast CAT run of 130 Pharaoh Hounds, a typical Pharaoh Hound tops out at 26.4 mph, and half of them run faster than 26.9 mph. That makes the Pharaoh Hound the 8th fastest of the 226 breeds that have run Fast CAT.
Only 8 Pharaoh Hounds have ever broken 30 mph, and 99 have topped 25 mph.
Among the most popular Hound breeds, the typical Pharaoh Hound is faster than 5 of 8. The Greyhound is the quickest of the bunch at 32.9 mph, and the Borzoi (27.8 mph) runs closest to the Pharaoh Hound. Over Fast CAT's 100 yards, the 6.5 mph gap to the Greyhound is about 1.52 seconds.
Anubis' Golden Phoenix Flying To The Sun holds the fastest consistent run by any Pharaoh Hound: 33.59 mph at the Ibizan Hound Club of the United States in Missouri on September 12, 2025. That's 100 yards in 6.09 seconds.
AKC's results also show Bazinga Caspian The Crown Prince at 37.74 mph, but that dog's next-best run is 28.38 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 Pharaoh Hound is Megaman, with a best of 27.83 mph over 6 logged runs.
Not really, but more are running. In 2021, 29 Pharaoh Hounds ran Fast CAT, typically at 26.1 mph. In 2025 it was 32 dogs at 26.6 mph.
New York has the most Pharaoh Hound runs, 352 of them, followed by New Jersey, California, Washington. The fastest Pharaoh Hound run in New York is 29.95 mph.
Pharaoh Hounds are sighthounds, built for exactly this: a straight sprint after a lure. Most catch on in a run or two. Any AKC-registered Pharaoh Hound over 12 months old can enter, and the only real training is a reliable finish: have someone your dog will run to waiting past the 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.