Friday's Listed Michael Seely Memorial Fillies' Stakes at York was a Coronation Stakes trial in all but name and there was a clear-cut winner in James Wigan's Lilt (Lope De Vega) with Royal Ascot looming.Coming into the deep mile contest off a Doncaster maiden in October, the 13-2 shot was delivered with a telling surge by Tom Marquand to overwhelm Cheveley Park Stud's upwardly-mobile So Regal (Kingman) and score by 1 1/2 lengths. There was another two lengths back to Nurlan Bizakov's unbeaten Botagoz (Mehmas) in third.Trained by William Haggas, the winner is a daughter of the Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf heroine Dank (Dansili). “She's a beautiful filly who is beautifully-bred and today she'd have learnt a lot,” Maureen Haggas said. “It's up to James and William where they want to go, but I think at the moment a mile is fine. She is a big girl with a big future.”Unbeaten!Lilt is bred to be good and strikes on her return in a deep-looking @SkyBet Fillies' Stakes.One to look forward to for @WilliamHaggas @yorkracecourse pic.twitter.com/sLzA5BI6Kf— Racing TV (@RacingTV) May 15, 2026The post Lope De Vega’s Coronation Entry Lilt Impresses At York appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions.