ON her first start since capturing the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf at Churchill Downs last November, Peter Brant’s Eclipse Award-winning mare Sistercharlie picked up where she left off when she won the Grade 1 Diana Stakes over nine furlongs on turf at Saratoga’s opening weekend.

She won her fifth Grade 1 with relative ease by a length and three-quarters from her Chad Brown-trained stable companions Rushing Fall and Homerique.