A typical Silky Terrier tops out around 16.8 mph in Fast CAT. The fastest one on record ran 22.18 mph. 5.9 mph slower than the typical dog (22.7 mph). Even a typical Silky Terrier would beat most people in a 100-yard sprint.
Based on the best Fast CAT run of 48 Silky Terriers, a typical Silky Terrier tops out at 16.8 mph, and half of them run faster than 17.0 mph. That makes the Silky Terrier the 199th fastest of the 226 breeds that have run Fast CAT.
None has reached 25 mph yet, but plenty of Silky Terriers love the chase anyway.
Among the most popular Toy breeds, the typical Silky Terrier is faster than 3 of 8. The Italian Greyhound is the quickest of the bunch at 23.5 mph, and the Havanese (16.1 mph) runs closest to the Silky Terrier. Over Fast CAT's 100 yards, the 6.7 mph gap to the Italian Greyhound is about 3.50 seconds.
Silkstone Love Her Madly holds the fastest consistent run by any Silky Terrier: 22.18 mph at the Silver State Kennel Club in Nevada on January 26, 2025. That's 100 yards in 9.22 seconds.
AKC's results also show ASLETT at 24.61 mph, but that dog's next-best run is 17.72 mph. A jump that big is usually a timing or typing error, so we flag it rather than crown it.
Ohio has the most Silky Terrier runs, 147 of them, followed by North Carolina, Hawaii, Iowa. The fastest Silky Terrier run in Ohio is 20.39 mph.
Short legs don't stop anyone from having a blast. Any AKC-registered Silky Terrier 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.