A typical Toy Poodle tops out around 17.1 mph in Fast CAT. The fastest one on record ran 25.01 mph. 5.6 mph slower than the typical dog (22.7 mph). Even a typical Toy Poodle would beat most people in a 100-yard sprint.
Based on the best Fast CAT run of 84 Toy Poodles, a typical Toy Poodle tops out at 17.1 mph, and half of them run faster than 17.5 mph. That makes the Toy Poodle the 196th fastest of the 226 breeds that have run Fast CAT.
2 Toy Poodles have topped 25 mph, but none has reached 30 yet.
Among the most popular Toy breeds, the typical Toy Poodle is faster than 3 of 8. The Italian Greyhound is the quickest of the bunch at 23.5 mph, and the Papillon (17.7 mph) runs closest to the Toy Poodle. Over Fast CAT's 100 yards, the 6.4 mph gap to the Italian Greyhound is about 3.29 seconds.
Williams' Sapphire II holds the fastest consistent run by any Toy Poodle: 25.01 mph at the South Texas Collie Club in Texas on November 10, 2024. That's 100 yards in 8.18 seconds.
AKC's results also show De La Passion Dynamo at 28.37 mph, but that dog's next-best run is 17.71 mph. A jump that big is usually a timing or typing error, so we flag it rather than crown it.
Not lately. The typical Toy Poodle ran 17.9 mph in 2024 (28 dogs) and 16.7 mph in 2025 (35 dogs). As more everyday pets join in, the average moves around.
Georgia has the most Toy Poodle runs, 266 of them, followed by Missouri, Tennessee, California. The fastest Toy Poodle run in Georgia is 20.58 mph.
Short legs don't stop anyone from having a blast. Any AKC-registered Toy Poodle 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.