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Title: AL PAPI turning into a monster going forward?
Post by: wizardofoz on July 18, 2026, 11:40:40 PM
(https://ustrottingnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Al_Papi-Chris_Gooden_7-18-26.jpg)
Title: Re: AL PAPI turning into a monster going forward?
Post by: wizardofoz on July 18, 2026, 11:42:23 PM
Adios elim: Al Papi---    3--    3/2H    3/2H    1/3    1/2    1/2   1:47.2    26.4   !
Title: Re: AL PAPI turning into a monster going forward?
Post by: Sweet on July 18, 2026, 11:49:05 PM
This horse is very good but they're not running back.

Even if they're in hand, just too fast for themselves.

The MP, this, then, nope.

I was all over PHH last Adios while y'all were foaming over Burke's horses.

Next Saturday OOMM with a full tank and for fun, you know it!  ;D
Title: Re: AL PAPI turning into a monster going forward?
Post by: wizardofoz on July 19, 2026, 12:18:53 AM
Mr Mamba today: https://replays.robertsstream.com/racereplays/replaysmobile.m3u8?cust=TheMeadows&race=202607181449MEE6&t=1784434572&h=0ca57047796ea08e01cb6b1773f93e91&forceformat=ios&source=flash
Title: Re: AL PAPI turning into a monster going forward?
Post by: Checked Up on July 19, 2026, 01:19:49 AM
Papi is preparing to peak in time for him to be a true gorilla for the Jug!
Title: Re: AL PAPI turning into a monster going forward?
Post by: PineHurstPacer on July 19, 2026, 08:37:37 AM
If He can just have McNair continue to cut the mile when He races the blazing miles will keep coming
Title: Re: AL PAPI turning into a monster going forward?
Post by: MIKE CAMPBELL on July 19, 2026, 08:47:54 AM
I lost a few bucks on him in the Meadowlands Pace but he raced great. I will not be surprised if he wins The Adios. 
Title: Re: AL PAPI turning into a monster going forward?
Post by: captaintreacherous on July 19, 2026, 10:09:14 AM
I started researching Al Papi...abit closer.

Extremely fast and has racked up very impressive earnings.

Great 2 year old and has made the transition to an
excellent 3 year old.

Close in all the races....

Super M(1) Race...

This season looks like prior to the Adios elim he has
been right there 6x...and oddly enuf beaten by 6
different horses.

Spectacular time in the elim..off the :25 second opening
q...

My guess.....

Very well could win the Adios Final..


Right there with Mamba Man...

Seems like Burke has virtually the entire field..

If they had a 6 horse entry....a show bet would be in order

for the Schnurrers.


Maybe Al Papi tries the Stallion ranks next year.






xxx
Title: Re: AL PAPI turning into a monster going forward?
Post by: hoosierboy on July 19, 2026, 12:43:42 PM
AL Papi was a good horse last year and this year as well.  Don’t understand why the race had to go so fast but, my prediction is that he wins the final.  I like OOM but I just don’t think he can slug it out with AL PApi and Brandon Blvd week after week.  Hey I have been wrong before maybe I am on this as well
Title: Re: AL PAPI turning into a monster going forward?
Post by: Sweet on July 19, 2026, 12:50:00 PM
AL Papi was a good horse last year and this year as well.  Don’t understand why the race had to go so fast but, my prediction is that he wins the final.  I like OOM but I just don’t think he can slug it out with AL PApi and Brandon Blvd week after week.  Hey I have been wrong before maybe I am on this as well

Al Papi is going week after week, mot OOMM lately.

Burke will try to strategize  a win with a torched pace and closer and try to catch OOMM in the middle.

Why he went too fast, and this dumb ass thread going over time and time again logic.  You burn the elim even if in hand the equal if not better full tank horse wins.

OOMM ran like a qualifier.
Title: Re: AL PAPI turning into a monster going forward?
Post by: gurals casino on July 19, 2026, 12:51:46 PM
AL Papi was a good horse last year and this year as well.  Don’t understand why the race had to go so fast but, my prediction is that he wins the final.  I like OOM but I just don’t think he can slug it out with AL PApi and Brandon Blvd week after week.  Hey I have been wrong before maybe I am on this as well

McNair's horse set the hot internal fractions-- the others just followed along...that is why the mile was fast

Papi and Melilo are not "cooked"- ngc3-then only horse that was cooked was McNair's
Title: Re: AL PAPI turning into a monster going forward?
Post by: Sweet on July 19, 2026, 12:54:51 PM
McNair's horse set the hot internal fractions-- the others just followed along...that is why the mile was fast

Papi Rob and Melilo are not "cooked"- ngc3-then only horse that was cooked was McNair's

So which is it with McNair he's a cheating F at the lower level.

At this level is he retarded?

Ok driver that gets spoon fed rides for quite some time.

He's a bad actor too with all his F's after the finish line torching horses or coming from way back off a slow pace with a speed horse.

He drops dead, racing wins!  ;D
Title: Re: AL PAPI turning into a monster going forward?
Post by: gurals casino on July 19, 2026, 01:04:22 PM
So which is it with McNair he's a cheating F at the lower level.

At this level is he retarded?

Ok driver that gets spoon fed rides for quite some time.

He's a bad actor too with all his F's after the finish line torching horses or coming from way back off a slow pace with a speed horse.

He drops dead, racing wins!  ;D

agree with you on both

his drives at Mohawk are often suspicious-like last week on that 1/5 trotter you needed that he botched

as an out of towner-on the Grand Circuit --he isn't the brightest bulb in the box

he probably figured he was over matched and his best chance to make the Final was to go 120 for 3/4--hoping to catch a speed favoring track--that plan obviously failed..... but for the obsessed with the clock fans, it produced a sub 148 mile which will give all the fraction/time experts plenty to talk about the next six days
Title: Re: AL PAPI turning into a monster going forward?
Post by: Sweet on July 19, 2026, 01:15:54 PM
agree with you on both

his drives at Mohawk are often suspicious-like last week on that 1/5 trotter you needed that he botched

as an out of towner-on the Grand Circuit --he isn't the brightest bulb in the box

he probably figured he was over matched and his best chance to make the Final was to go 120 for 3/4--hoping to catch a speed favoring track--that plan obviously failed..... but for the obsessed with the clock fans, it produced a sub 148 mile which will give all the fraction/time experts plenty to talk about the next six days

These 1/4's break down to 1/8's.

You can blast in 12 and finish the quarter in 16 for a 28.

They have these horses pre-race to test horse control.

He's a money burning f'ing junky.
Title: Re: AL PAPI turning into a monster going forward?
Post by: Brown jug on July 19, 2026, 03:38:16 PM
no argument
the drive in the adios elim was retarded
the owner paid a supplement  ...why??
there was no need to go that speed to the 1/4 or the 1/2
Title: Re: AL PAPI turning into a monster going forward?
Post by: captaintreacherous on July 19, 2026, 08:41:47 PM
Al Papi. Mamba Man in a dead Heat


3 minute photo

but dont have the print.


with the 30 fans  in attendance throwing garbage cans on the track
like at Yonkers Raceway decades ago.
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