A typical Plott Hound tops out around 24.8 mph in Fast CAT. The fastest one on record ran 28.29 mph. 2.1 mph faster than the typical dog (22.7 mph). The fastest Plott Hounds outrun Usain Bolt's top speed by 0.5 mph.
Based on the best Fast CAT run of 27 Plott Hounds, a typical Plott Hound tops out at 24.8 mph, and half of them run faster than 25.2 mph. That makes the Plott Hound the 25th fastest of the 226 breeds that have run Fast CAT.
14 Plott Hounds have topped 25 mph, but none has reached 30 yet.
Among the most popular Hound breeds, the typical Plott Hound 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 Plott Hound. Over Fast CAT's 100 yards, the 8.2 mph gap to the Greyhound is about 2.05 seconds.
Remington Runs holds the fastest consistent run by any Plott Hound: 28.29 mph at the Alamo Area Whippet Club in Texas on March 11, 2018. That's 100 yards in 7.23 seconds.
AKC's results also show Highperformance Freedomfighter at 29.35 mph, but that dog's next-best run is 24.88 mph. A jump that big is usually a timing or typing error, so we flag it rather than crown it.
Tennessee has the most Plott Hound runs, 121 of them, followed by Florida, Washington, Arizona. The fastest Plott Hound run in Tennessee is 25.96 mph.
Any AKC-registered Plott Hound 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.