Trained by Stephen A. DiMauro, The Very One is best known for her grade two score in the 1979 Dixie Handicap at Pimlico Race Course.
After two years of racing, it was determined by her owner and trainer, Monti "Sonny" Sims [Dimauro trained her later in her career], that The Very One was a turf specialist.
In May 1979 at age four, The Very One competed in the $125,000 Grade II Dixie Handicap at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland.
In 1980 as a five-year-old, The Very One had already won six stakes races and came back to defend her title at "Old Hilltop" (Pimlico) in the Dixie.
She performed well but gave up the lead at the wire to place second by a half length to graded stakes winner Marquee Universal.
Her first stakes win came in 1978 when she won the Anne Arundel Handicap at Laurel Park Racecourse.