Sister Otoole wins $100,000 Del Mar stakes for 2nd straight year

Sister Otoole won the CTT & TOC Stakes as a 5-year-old at Del Mar on Aug. 19 of last year. In an ironic twist, the daughter of Amira’s Prince then went winless, until capturing the $100,000 event again yesterday, exactly 365 days later.

Sister Otoole sat seventh and last in the early going under Antonio Fresu, then mowed’em down in the stretch and won by 1 1/4 lengths with a mile and 3/8ths on the grass in 2:17.45, and paying $12.60. In last year’s win, she came from 8th and last, won by half a length and paid $11.

Sister Otoole earned $60,000 and increased her career bank account to $395,470. The mare bred by Joe and Helen Barbazon is 4-5-4 in 21 starts; she’s the eighth winner this year for Amira’s Prince and received an Equibase ‘E’ speed figure of 100, the fifth time in her career she has reached the magic number.