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Tattersalls Pace and Bluegrass Stake. In his career Nihilator won 35 of 38 races and $ 3,225,754. He was the first
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setting world record for the fastest race ever with quarter mile splits of 26 2/5, 53 4/5 and 1:21 2/5 before attempting to break the world record of 1:49 1/5 set by his sire
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won a race recording a half mile track world record mile of 1:51. Nihilator scored an easy win in the Walt
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