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Include Me Out draws off in La Canada
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| Include Me Out glided home
in the La Canada
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Include Me Out, trained by Ron Ellis for Jay Em Ess Stable, continued
a stellar weekend for breeder Brereton C. Jones when pulling away in the
stretch of Sunday's Grade 2, $150,000
La Canada Stakes at Santa Anita to score by 4 1/4 lengths. On
Saturday, Jones saw his homebreds Mr. Bowling and Believe You Can
capture the Grade 3 Lecomte Stakes and Silverbulletday Stakes,
respectively, at Fair Grounds.
One day later on the West Coast, Include Me Out entered the gate for
the La Canada as the 8-1 fifth choice in the six-filly field. Jockey Joe
Talamo settled her near the back of the group as May Day Rose moved up
to establish :22 3/5, :45 4/5 and 1:10 fractions. Tiz Flirtatious kept
in close attendance to her outside but found company in the form of
Great Hot nearing the turn.
In the end it didn't matter as Include Me Out circled the field four
wide rounding the turn and took command entering the lane. She merely
extended her margin from there under encouragement from Talamo, crossing
under the wire to stop the clock in 1:41 4/5 for 1 1/16 miles on the
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"I thought she looked great the whole race," Ellis said. "She was very
relaxed and with the pace scenario I thought Joe (Talamo) had her in a perfect
spot. She just looked very comfortable all the way. She's just been learning
coming up to this but pedigree-wise she wanted to go two turns. I felt good
about it."
Include Me Out rewarded her faithful supporters with payouts of $19, 6.40 and
$3.40. Great Hot lost the war but won the battle for second when holding 8-5
favorite Tiz Flirtatious by three parts of a length. Love Theway Youare came
from last to take fourth and was followed under the line by Capital Plan and May
Day Rose. Big Tiz and Miss Radiance were both scratched.
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| Include Me Out has proven to be a multi-surface talent
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Include Me Out made just her second start against stakes rivals in this spot,
finishing fifth in her black-type debut in the Grade 1 La Brea Stakes last out
on New Year's Eve. The four-year-old daughter of Include has proven competitive
on both dirt and synthetic tracks during her brief career. She broke her maiden
on Del Mar's Polytrack, placed second and won a pair of optional claimers on
Santa Anita's dirt, then was runner-up on Hollywood Park's Cushion Track against
similar prior to her La Brea effort.
"She got in behind horses (when finishing fifth in the La Brea at seven
furlongs) but I think being by Include she was dying to go two turns and it's
kind of been a process getting her up to it. She fired today, that's for sure,"
Ellis said, before adding, "I don't know (where she'll go next). We'll just kind
of wait and see. She's got a half-sister that won a Grade 1 on the grass so
we've got a lot of options, so we'll kind of look at it, think about it and see
where to go."
Include Me Out saw her earnings double to $183,600 with the La Canada
winner's share, and now boasts a 7-3-2-0 mark.
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The Kentucky-bred lass is out of the unraced Mazel Trick mare Don't Trick
Her, making her a half-sister to Grade 1 queen Check the Label and stakes
victress On the Menu. Include Me Out, who sold to her current connections as
a $150,000 Fasig-Tipton July yearling, is from the same female line as Grade 1
heroines Sweet Talker and Likeable Style.
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