Celias Counsel gets underway at Woodbine

Only Lonely and Sophisticat both used similar front-end tactics to deliver victories in Monday's opening leg of the Celias Counsel Trotting Series for 3-year-old fillies at Woodbine Racetrack.

In the opening $18,000(C) split, Luc Ouellette fired Only Lonely straight to the top from post five in the shortened field and never looked back through splits of :28.3, 1:00.2 and 1:30.2. The daughter of Yankee Paco-Too Good For You powered away from rivals with a :28.1 final stanza to score over Daylon Mistress and Whatever Lolawants.

The Chris Beaver trainee was making her first start of the campaign after winning two of 10 starts last season as a freshman. The filly is owned by Tom Crouch of Lexington, Ky.

Sophisticat, driven by Anthony MacDonald, also took charge early in the second division from post six and put up fractions of :28.4, 1:00 and 1:30.2, before kicking in with a :28.2 last quarter to emerge victorious over Keystone Bride and Fa Mulan.

Trained by James MacDonald, the daughter of Earl-Summer Guest was notching her first win of the season in three outings for brother Anthony who co-owns with Frank Cirillo of Mississauga, Ont.

The second leg of the Celias Counsel Series goes next Monday night at Woodbine. (WEG)

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