[1] Bred by Arthur B. Hancock at his Claiborne Farm near Paris, Kentucky, she was purchased at the 1944 July Selected Yearling sale for $22,000[2] by cosmetics queen Elizabeth Arden who campaigned her under the name of her Maine Chance Farm.
Racing Hall of Fame trainer Tom Smith, Beaugay won her first six starts including five major events for her age and gender.
In winning the Polly Drummond Stakes at Delaware Park Racetrack, she set a new track record for five furlongs of fifty eight seconds flat.
[3] In what would be her final start in 1945 she went up against male opponents in the Futurity Stakes at Belmont Park.
Under new trainer, Canadian James W. Smith, Beaugay did return to race the following year and notably won the 1946 Colonial Handicap at Garden State Park Racetrack and the 1947 New Rochelle Handicap at Jamaica Race Course.