Laurel Park’s turf course has six configurations. It’s a good thing because six races are scheduled on the grass when the track’s Fall Meet begins this Friday, Sept. 5. The Late Pick 4 features three turf races. Here’s a closer look with a suggested 50-cent Pick 4 that costs $28 to play:

LRL 5th (2:02 p.m. EST) -- QUAMASH set the pace in back-to-back turf route races but settled for minor awards. He broke awkwardly, hit another gear nearing the far turn and held okay for third two back, then was overhauled by a pair of deep-closing co-favorites on a ‘yielding’ course last out. He can upstage seven in-the-money finishes in his 11th start today. FURIOUS GEORGE showed little in his lone turf sprint try, but he ran well enough in a 6F follow-up on the main track to warrant a second look. He stalked and passed the 4-to-5 winner after he was floated wide in the stretch and battled gamely to finish second. ALL FRUITS RIPE owns the top grass sprint figure in the field, but the rivals he faced in that photo-finish setback at 5-1/2F are a combined 29/1-3-2 since then, so I’ll pass on him for lack of value.

LRL 6th race (2:29 p.m. EST) -- Brittany Russell, the leading trainer in Maryland the last two years, and Penn National-based conditioner Todd Beattie always have their first-time starters ready to run. Russell is 39-for-127 (31 percent) with debut runners at Laurel Park the last three years and – get this – only six were dismissed at higher than 6-1 odds. Beattie is 14/3-3-3 with debut runners in the last year, with all but two being dismissed at 9-2 odds or less. Russell’s SHARE SUCCESS and Beattie’s MALIBU’S RUMRUNNER will carry the Pick 4 hopes.

LRL 7th race (2:59 p.m. EST) -- Five of the six entrants is this one-mile turf allowance arrive off maiden victories from throughout the Mid-Atlantic region, while DAKOTA CAM, a MSW-breaker at this distance on the main track, tested stakes company after her victory. But LAW SCHOOL was by far the most visually impressive of the group. She sped off to a clear lead and exploded in the Parx stretch to win by 12-1/4 lengths at 5-1/2F in a faster time than a 2yo MSW sprint for the boys in the next race. If she handles the added distance and the transition to turf, she should be back in the winners’ circle. RADAR LOOP makes the ticket after she benefited from a front-end duel but rallied past a pair of sub 2-to-1 favorites to graduate at one mile on the Monmouth Park lawn.

LRL 8th race (3:27 p.m. EST) -- It’s anybody’s race in the finale, a $45,000 maiden claimer at 5-1/2F, so hit the ‘ALL’ button. HIPS CHAMP exits a double ‘key’ race. STEWBALL finished in the money from on and off the pace at 5-1/2F. LUCA MACHINE earned the field’s top speed figure in a photo-finish setback in his only start for a claiming tag. CHIMNEY SWEEP arrives off back-to-back runner-up placing in MSW company on the turf. JESTER SANG tries to upgrade a series of five consecutive in-the-money finishes. FAROOQ showed speed off the layoff and worked in :47 since then on the main track.

Suggested 50-Cent Pick 4
LRL 5th Race: 4, 7
LRL 6th Race: 3, 5
LRL 7th Race: 1, 3
LRL 8th Race: ALL
Cost: $28