Laurel Park Picks Today: Nov. 14, 2026

Laurel Park picks today — the card at a glance

Saturday, November 14, 2026 at Laurel Park in Laurel, Maryland: #9 Mopo (37.5%) is the strongest top pick at any track in the country today, leading a 10-race card from 12:00 p.m. Eastern. #9 Mopo is the headline act, and it is not close — no other featured pick on today's national board rates within three points of him. Conditions are the best on the East Coast today: sunny and clear at 50°F, with Equibase (updated 10:17 a.m. Eastern) listing the dirt fast and the turf good, and the temporary rail at 52 feet for the early turf races. The card's feature is the $100,000 Thirty Eight Go Go Stakes in Race 9. The percentages below are our Edge V2 model's win probability for each horse — the higher the number, the more likely the model makes that horse to win. Every rating below was read this morning from the individual Edge race pages and scratch-checked against Equibase.

Laurel Park Race 5 pick: #9 Mopo (37.5%)

Race 5 (1:54 p.m. ET) is a $40,000 allowance optional claimer over five and a half furlongs on turf for a $53,000 purse, and Edge marks it as the card's Best Bet race. #9 Mopo rates 37.5% — the highest featured number in the country today — on a speed figure of 94.0 near the field top, with his figures rising across his last four starts to a current 95. He is a presser rather than a need-the-lead type, which suits a balanced pace picture, and at 7/5 the market agrees he is the horse to beat; the model simply agrees harder. The race around him has been shredded by scratches — six of the original eleven are out, including both main-track-only entries — leaving just five runners, which only concentrates his edge. The live dangers are #10 Noquestionaboutit at 21.8%, a 10/1 shot the model flags as value, and #8 Big Earn at 15.8%, with the bomb-alert horse #3 For the Ladies at 13.2% (20/1) underneath. A near-odds-on read in a five-horse field is a single in any multi-race ticket you build today.

Laurel Park Race 7 pick: #2 Frustrated (26.0%)

Race 7 (2:53 p.m. ET) is a $49,000 allowance over six furlongs on the fast dirt, and #2 Frustrated tops the read at 26.0% on a speed figure of 99.0 near the field top — the best figure cited in any featured Laurel race today. The setup is the argument: the pace map projects a meltdown, with five of the seven runners wanting the early lead, and Frustrated is a presser who can sit just off that fight and strike when it collapses. At 5/2 he is the morning-line favourite. Behind him, #5 Winning Trip rates 19.1% at 9/2, and then it bunches: #3 Surgical Precision and #6 Southern Gentleman both rate 13.9%, the latter returning from 469 days away and a gelding — a profile to respect but not to trust at 2/1. One scratch: #1 Mo's Glitter is out (vet — illness). When the pace map says meltdown and the top pick's style is built to profit from exactly that, the read writes itself. See our pace analysis guide for how we score these setups.

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How the full Laurel Park card works on Edge

Two races are featured here; the other eight — including the $100,000 Thirty Eight Go Go Stakes in Race 9 and a Race 8 where #9 Mad Misty rates right with today's featured names — are rated horse-by-horse on Edge, with percentages and a plain-English why for every top pick. Start with the free picks page and today's free track — a full track free every day with a free account — and which track you get is a surprise until you sign up — then open the complete Laurel card on Edge before the 12:00 p.m. Eastern first post. Today's flagship preview is Woodbine picks today, and yesterday's Laurel featured races are graded honestly in the results section of yesterday's Laurel post.