The Beat goes on for Include Betty

This will not be a handicapping article.

At 2-5 on the morning line, I am certainly not recommending a wager on Include Betty in Sunday’s Remington Park Oaks. I am, however, taking this opportunity to point out both the durability and the class that the Tom Proctor trained chestnut filly has demonstrated for the entire season.

Sure the daughter of Include and Betty’s Solutions can be the victim of a slow pace. Most late running horses tend to be hampered by dawdling early fractions. It happened to her last time when she flattened out to finish fifth in the Grade 1 Alabama at Saratoga. It was not the first time this year that the Brereton Jones owned miss ran out of the money. As a matter of fact, she has failed to hit the board three times in 2015. She clearly lives by the motto of … You can’t keep a good girl down, though. Yes, Include Betty is far from perfect, but she keeps coming back, and is putting together quite a noteworthy year.

Highlights from her campaign this season include:

January 3 -- She came from last to zoom by and break her maiden by one length at Tampa Bay Downs.

January 31 -- She came from last again, circled the field, and got up in the final few strides to win her stakes debut in the Suncoast Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs.

April 4 -- Coming from her usual spot in last early, she showed off an explosive turn of foot to strike the lead in mid-stretch while scoring her first graded stakes win in the Grade 3 Fantasy at Oaklawn Park.

June 27 -- You guessed it, trailing the field in the early going, Include Betty went from last to first in a short amount of time on her way to a going away 3 1/4-length score in the Grade 1 Mother Goose at Belmont Park.

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If Include Betty indeed does run to her odds under Drayden Van Dyke in the $200,000 Remington Park Oaks, it will mark her fifth win from ten starts, and fourth stakes win, with each coming at a different track. She also finished second in the Grade 2 Black-Eyed Susan at Pimlico, and third in the Grade 1 Coaching Club American Oaks at Saratoga. All of this accomplished in the 2015 calendar year. Not bad at all for for a filly who turned three as a maiden at Tampa Bay Downs.