Laurel Park’s popular 50-cent Late Pick 4 averages 9 starters per race, spanning four distances this Friday. Solve it and you should be rewarded with a good payout. Here’s a closer look at the races with a suggested $12 ticket:

LRL 6th race (2:52 EST) -- NAVAL EMPIRE stumbled at the start and ‘churned on’ to finish third in a key 6F allowance sprint last out. Tappin Josie (5-10, $200k), the race winner, came back to win the $75,000 Society Hill Stakes at Parx, and Liquidator (4-10, $125k) won an allowance sprint at Laurel. That makes the daughter of multiple Grade I-winning sire Empire Maker and stakes-winning dam In The Navy Now a must play at 8-1 on the morning line in her first route attempt. BALPOOL arrives from Aqueduct after she out-dueled the 4-to-5 favorite to break her maiden at one mile despite drifting late. MISS FUSSY PANTS won her only two starts beyond 6F by a combined 12 lengths, now enters a high-percentage claim barn for her first start at one mile.

LRL 7th race (3:21 EST) -- RUTHANNE checks all the boxes to win at first asking. She worked two bullets for a 30-percent debut barn, her sire Uncle Mo ranks second in progeny earnings in 2023, and her dam was a multiple stakes-placed sprinter. DIAL FOR LOVE, by first-out winner and 2011 Florida Derby (G-1) champ Dialed In, also gets a spot on the ticket for a 27-percent barn with MSW runners.

LRL 8th race (3:52 EST) -- Trainer Anthony Farrior has two chances to try and enhance his 204-for-894 record with claims in the past year. TATE, first or second in 9 of 12 starts at Laurel Park, comes off a game win for a $25,000 tag but must improve off his prior allowance starts. ORO DE MORO MORO romped in his first start for the barn at one mile in November and is worth a 10-1 price stab off the re-claim today. Trainer Jamie Ness sends out a solid entry with JARDANI, who rallied from far back to finish second in a longer allowance race, and UNDER THE RADAR, who upstaged a series of third-place finishes with a pair of recent photo-finish victories. MAXIMUS MIDANI is working forwardly for his return from a 10-month layoff and he is reunited with jockey Forest Boyce, who coaxed three wins and two near misses from the 6-year-old during an $88k season last year, mostly in state-bred allowance company.

LRL 9th race (4:23 EST) -- REAL RAMBO was in range of the favorites entering the far turn at 1-1/8 miles but couldn’t keep pace before he was bumped around in early stretch. The top two finishers combined for three seconds and a third with an average 59 Beyer covering their four previous starts and the third-place finisher came back to run second in MSW company at Charles Town. Make him today’s solo play on the class drop.

Suggested 50-cent Ticket
LRL 6th race: 1, 2, 5
LRL 7th race: 1, 2
LRL 8th race: 2, 4, 5, 6
LRL 9th race: 8
COST: $12