Exciting Update for Simply Enchanting

Simply Enchanting had her first work at Santa Anita this morning, breezing five furlongs from the gate in 1:00.80 (21/88) while on the outside of stablemate, Aint No Joke. Under jockey Santiago Gonzalez, your daughter of Nyquist broke well and showed decent early foot as the pair went down the backstretch. Simply Enchanting finished about a neck back from her mate as they completed the five furlongs at the eighth pole since, galloping out six furlongs to the wire. 

Trainer Phil D’Amato thought this was a solid work in what was a demanding drill over a new surface against a mate who has run twice of late. He did report this wasn’t his ideal plan given she worked from the gate last week at Los Alamitos but due to the incoming weather, he wanted to be sure he got a second gate work in with a potential debut on the horizon. 

Phil is going to keep his eye on a maiden special weight on Friday, December 29th at Santa Anita which will be contested going six furlongs on the dirt. He'll play the weather by ear this coming week but if she bounces out of the work well and has no hiccups throughout the week, he feels it would be good to get a run into her. By no surprise, both rider and Phil believe her future is going to be around two turns, but your filly has not been slow by any means in her a.m. activity which gives the barn confidence sprinting her first time out.

Simply Enchanting from August of 2023
(post growth spurt)