Be Perfect BG stays perfect, completes NJSS sweep
At 0h23, on August 3, 2025 • By James Witherite, Meadowlands Media Relations
Be Perfect BG kept her undefeated record intact with a devastating 1:50.1 score over six rivals in the $180,000 New Jersey Sire Stakes final for 2-year-old pacing fillies on Friday (Aug. 1) at the Meadowlands, knocking 1-3/5 seconds off her previous lifetime mark and equaling the season’s fastest mile from a 2-year-old pacer.
Driver Dexter Dunn took his time with Be Perfect BG early in the race, yielding to track the tandem of Perfect Thought (driven by Scott Zeron) and Napalm (David Miller) from third through a :27 opening quarter before activating the Perfect Sting-JK Mardi Says filly with five-eighths to go. After clearing Perfect Thought for command midway up the backstretch, Be Perfect BG traveled unopposed through middle sectionals of :54.4 and 1:22.4 before willingly shifting gears and opening up a three-length lead off the corner for home. She used :27.2 stretch speed to seal her fifth victory in as many starts and evade a mild late rally from Napalm by a measured 2-1/2 lengths. Perfect Thought tired after being headed for second in mid-stretch and finished third, another 7-1/4 lengths in arrears.
“When she came to us, she was a nice, good-sized filly, well put together,” said Anthony Beaton, who took over the training duties of Be Perfect BG after she won the first two races of her career at Hippodrome 3R, in Quebec, for owner Ecurie CSL. “She’s been nothing but exceptional since we got her; she keeps getting better and better every week.”
Be Perfect BG increased her career earnings to $121,950 with the victory. As the 1-5 favorite, she paid $2.40 to win.
