How to Read Your AKC Fast CAT Results Page
How to Read Your AKC Fast CAT Results Page
A few weeks after every Fast CAT event, AKC publishes the official results to apps.akc.org. That page is the single source of truth for everything that counts toward titles, rankings, and your dog's pedigree — but it's not exactly user-friendly. Here's a walkthrough of every column and what each line actually means.
How to find your event's results page
You start at AKC's event search and look up either by event number (which appears on your run slip) or by date and breed. Each Fast CAT trial has its own AKC event number — a weekend with two trials produces two separate result pages, even at the same physical location. If you ran in both trials, you'll have two rows on two pages.
In the TallyCAT app, you tap any saved run with an event number to deep-link straight to the published results page once they're live.
When results actually appear
AKC's stated rule is "within 7 days of the event." In practice:
Run slips with handheld times are unofficial until AKC publishes. The published time is what counts toward titles and the breed top 20. TallyCAT auto-verifies your logged runs against the published page once it goes live, replacing any handheld time with AKC's official one.
The page header
Every results page opens with the event metadata:
The results table
The main content is a table. Each row is one dog's run, sorted in some non-obvious order (usually by entry time, sometimes by registration). Columns:
Dog ID (left column)
A clickable AKC ID linking to the dog's AKC pedigree page. This is the dog's permanent registration number — the same one printed on their AKC papers. This is how AKC tracks the dog, not by name. Two different dogs with similar names won't be confused.Registered Name
Full AKC registered name including all earned titles as suffixes. Example: GCH CH Windsong's Captain Maverick BCAT. This name updates on AKC's side as the dog earns new titles, so an old results page might show fewer suffixes than the current AKC pedigree.The registered name is not the call name (the daily-life name your dog responds to). AKC doesn't track call names. If you're searching for "Lulu" on the page, you won't find her — search for the registered name's distinctive token instead.
Sex
"Dog" (intact or neutered male) or "Bitch" (intact or spayed female). AKC uses the breed-fancy convention.MPH
Your dog's officially recorded miles-per-hour, derived from the 100-yard time using the formulaMPH = 204.545 ÷ time in seconds. AKC publishes the MPH (not the raw time). Two decimal places.
This is the number that goes onto your dog's record and feeds into the breed top-20 rankings. It's the single most important number on the page.
Points
Your dog's earned points for this run, calculated asMPH × handicap:
The handicap is determined by your dog's measured height — a measurement taken at the event by the inspection committee or already on file from a prior measurement. Once you've been measured, that handicap stays with the dog for life unless you petition for re-measurement.
Common edge cases
My run isn't on the page. Check the date carefully — if the event ran two trials on Saturday and one on Sunday, you might be looking at the wrong event number. If you ran a fun run instead of a scored run, those don't appear in the official results (the run slip will say "Fun Run" or have no event number).
If the event number is right and your registered run is missing: contact the trial secretary first. The club controls what they submit to AKC. Errors at the club level (wrong dog ID, transposed times, missed entries) are fixable, but they have to fix it on their side.
The MPH is wrong. Means the timing equipment misread or the trial secretary transposed numbers. Same fix path: trial secretary first. If the secretary confirms the published time matches what they submitted but it doesn't match what you recorded at the event, AKC's records win — but it's worth flagging for your records.
My dog's name has changed. AKC doesn't retroactively update old result pages with new titles. If your dog earned BCAT in March and DCAT in June, the March results page still shows the BCAT-only name. Current rankings and the breed top 20 use the latest registered name.
The dog is listed as a different breed. Almost always means the dog is registered under a different breed in AKC's system than what you (or the announcer) used at the trial. The published breed is whatever AKC has on file. For All American Dogs (Canine Partners enrollees), the breed always shows as "All American Dog."
What to do with the data
Save the page. Bookmark it, screenshot it, save the URL — AKC's site is reliable but their URL structure has changed before, and recovering an old result is painful. The best time to verify your run is the same week the page goes live.
TallyCAT auto-archives every published result for runs you've logged in the app, so you don't have to track URLs manually. The app also calculates running totals toward your next title, projects your breed top-20 rank, and notifies you when AKC publishes a new run for any of your dogs.
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