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Andrew Champagne
Andrew Champagne has served as a sports and horse racing handicapper, writer, and digital media producer for multiple national outlets. He enjoys picking winners, bowling reasonably well, and golfing incredibly poorly. Originally from upstate New York, Andrew now lives in Concord, California.
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Player Quick Pick: Saratoga Late Pick Four for 9/1/14
By Andrew Champagne It's finally here: Closing day at Saratoga. Another great meet has come to a close, and we'll try to go out with a bang in today's late Pick Four. Here's how I'll play it. RACE #7: We start off with the meet's final 2-year-old r ...
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Player Quick Pick: Saratoga Late Pick Four for 8/31/14
By Andrew Champagne Before we go any further, any analysis of Sunday's card needs to include a mention of Tom Durkin's last day calling races. He's arguably the best ever at painting a picture of what's happening during a race, and all the tributes ...
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Player Quick Pick: Saratoga Late Pick Four for 8/30/14
By Andrew Champagne The final Saturday of the 2014 Saratoga meet is upon us. We've got one last $500,000 guaranteed late Pick Four pool to go after, one headlined by several stakes races and a couple of longshot plays. Let's get to it. RACE #9: We ...
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Player Quick Pick: Saratoga Early Pick Four for 8/29/14
By Andrew Champagne We're shaking things up for this Friday card at Saratoga, the final such card this year at The Spa. We'll take a look at the early sequence here, and here's how I'll be playing it. RACE #2: We open with a $25,000 claimer for tur ...
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Player Quick Pick: Saratoga Late Pick Four for 8/28/14
By Andrew Champagne
The last Thursday card of the Saratoga meet is upon us, and it boasts a tough late Pick Four sequence. In order, we have a 2-year-old maiden race, a $50,000 claimer, a tough turf sprint, and a wide-open maiden claimer featuring a ...
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Player Quick Pick: Saratoga Late Pick Four for 8/27/14
By Andrew Champagne We're officially in the home stretch of the Saratoga meet. Only five cards are left on the slate, and this is the final Wednesday program in upstate New York. With that in mind, here's how I'll approach the day's late Pick Four. ...
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Player Quick Pick: Saratoga Late Pick Four for 8/25/14
By Andrew Champagne Monday's Pick Four sequence got much more complicated with the scratch of my best bet of the day. Zamquick would have been extremely tough to beat in the opening leg, and when that one scratched, the ticket became a real head-scr ...
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Player Quick Pick: Saratoga Late Pick Four for 8/24/14
By Andrew Champagne New York-breds take center stage Sunday at Saratoga, and their presence is a major part of the day's late Pick Four. All 11 races on the card were written strictly for state-breds, and this sequence features a pair of lucrative s ...
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Player Quick Pick: TwinSpires Battle Royale, Round Three (SAR All-Stakes Pick Four, 8/23/14)
By Andrew Champagne
Come one, come all, to the TwinSpires Battle Royale rubber match. Molly Jo Rosen and I have squared off twice so far this Saratoga meet, and we've each emerged victorious once. Given the all-stakes Pick Four set for Travers Satur ...
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Player Quick Pick: Saratoga Late Pick Four for 8/22/14
By Andrew Champagne Mother Nature is taking her best shot at Saratoga, and for the second straight day, we’re off the turf at The Spa. That throws a monkey wrench into the late Pick Four, where the final two legs were ravaged by scratches. Here’s ho ...
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Player Quick Pick: Saratoga Late Pick Four for 8/21/14
Travers week rolls on with Thursday's 10-race card. We've got a couple of big fields in the late Pick Four sequence, some with very live longshots who could shake up that wager. Here's how I'll play it. RACE #7: We start off with a two-turn dirt rou ...
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Player Quick Pick: Saratoga Late Pick Four for 8/20/14
By Andrew Champagne Don't look now, but we've got less than two weeks left in the 2014 Saratoga meet. As such, we're running out of opportunities to make some serious dough in upstate New York. That isn't lost on your fearless handicapper, and hopef ...
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Player Quick Pick: Saratoga Late Pick Four for 8/18/14
The "ALL" button is my nemesis. Every day, I try to give out a Pick Four ticket at Saratoga that's affordable, yet provides meaningful coverage as well. A general rule is that I try not to give out a ticket I wouldn't play myself, and the "ALL" butto ...
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Player Quick Pick: Saratoga Late Pick Four for 8/17/14
Few things in handicapping are as painful as going 3-of-4 in a late Pick Four sequence. Yesterday in this space, we were an inquiry away from hitting a pretty sizable Pick Four. However, we’re back on the horse for Sunday’s wager, and this one isn’t ...
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Player Quick Pick: Saratoga Late Pick Four for 8/16/14
By Andrew Champagne Another Saturday at The Spa brings another $500,000 guaranteed pool in the late Pick Four. Some of these races are tough, folks, and whittling this down to a $60 or $80 ticket was not an easy thing to do. Here's how I'm playing i ...
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Upstart vs. Rick Violette
By Andrew Champagne We gave out a $291 winner in this space yesterday thanks to Bug Juice prevailing in a blanket finish. For Friday’s card, a 10-race slate filled with head-scratchers, we’ll try to make some dough early in the day. The late Pick Fo ...
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Player Quick Pick: Saratoga Late Pick Four for 8/14/14
The rain that ravaged Wednesday’s card at Saratoga has moved out of the area. As such, I’m planning for turf racing Thursday at The Spa, especially in a late Pick Four sequence that (knock on wood) looks pretty hittable. Here’s how I’ll play it. RAC ...
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Player Quick Pick: Saratoga early Pick 4 for 8/13/2014
remember to check Scratches & Changes before wagering Many pretty colors are heading Saratoga's way on the radar. With the late Pick Four (as usual) stacked with turf races, ones that may be decimated by rain-induced scratches, we'll concentrate ...
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