Luth Enchantee was a lightly built[1] chestnut mare with a white sock on her right hind leg, bred by her owner Paul de Moussac at his Haras du Mezeray near Ticheville.

[2] She was from the second crop of foals sired by Be My Guest, an American-bred stallion who won the Waterford Crystal Mile when trained in Ireland by Vincent O'Brien.

[3] Luth Enchantee was trained at Chantilly by John Cunnington a Frenchman of British descent[4] and was ridden in her most important races by the French jockey Maurice Philipperon.

Later in June she recorded her first win at the seventh attempt when taking the Prix des Dahlias, a maiden race at Saint-Cloud Racecourse.

On her next appearance she was moved back up into Group race company and finished fourth behind African Joy in the Prix de la Porte Maillot over 1400m at Longchamp Racecourse.

[5] The emergence of Luth Enchantee a top-class racehorse began with her run in the Prix d'Astarte (then a Group Two race) over 1600m at Deauville Racecourse in early August.

Philipperon restrained the filly in the early stages before taking the lead 200m from the finish, and he won decisively by one and a half lengths from L'Emigrant with the British outsider Montekin in third.

She failed to win in six races, with her best effort coming in July, when she finished fourth behind Teenoso in the Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud.