Bred in Maryland by Robert E. Meyerhoff and raced under the Fitzhugh LLC banner as his owner, he had a record of 20: 10-1-4 with career earnings of $1,659,560.
Include also won the $100,000 Vincent A. Moscarelli Memorial Stakes at nine furlongs at Delaware Park by 9+1⁄2 lengths, defeating Judge's Case and Lightning Paces.
[5] The four straight wins with an average margin of 7+1⁄2 lengths earned him favoritism in the G3 Pennsylvania Derby against graded stakes winners Hal's Hope and Pine Bluff amongst others.
[5] Include spent the next three weeks breezing and doing two mile gallops in preparation for this next start in the G2 New Orleans Handicap, a race he won by 1+1⁄4 lengths, beating well-regarded horses such as Nite Dreamer and Arkansas Derby winner Valhol.
Bred and trained in Maryland, Include was the local favorite for the race, and the overall 5/2 co-second choice on the morning line in a field of seven graded stakes horses from around the country, including G3 Widener Handicap winner Albert the Great, G1 Gulfstream Park Handicap placed Pleasant Breeze, and Milwaukee Brew, winner of the prior year's G2 Ohio Derby.
He was the morning line favorite for the nine furlong race and assigned a weight of 118 pounds, being by then considered one of the top older horses in the country.
[17][18] At the end of the summer, Include placed third in the $500,000 G2 Meadowlands Cup, losing to Gander and Broken Vow by a neck in a "tremendous stretch battle.
[5] In the late autumn, as his last race of the year, Include entered the $450,000 G2 Clark Handicap at Churchill Downs as the morning line favorite and highweight at 120 pounds, in which he was once again matched up against Gander.
[22] In Include's first race at age five, he recorded a repeat victory in the Jennings Handicap, winning by nine lengths as the favorite in 1:49.97 for the nine furlongs.
[23] He was in the lead coming into the final stretch, but was passed by Evening Attire and eventual winner Macho Uno to finish third, beaten by two lengths.
[5][24] Due to a cough, it was eleven weeks until Include raced again, in the G2 Phillip H. Iselin Handicap, once again assigned the top weight at 120 pounds the 1-2 favorite, but he bobbled at the start and was clearly not in a position to win in the final stretch, finishing sixth in the seven horse field.
[29] As a son of Broad Brush out of a mare by Stop the Music, he was an outcross sire for Northern Dancer and Mr. Prospector blood with three crosses to Turn-to in his first four generations.