After earning $1,220,649 and seven consecutive years of racing at the highest levels, Il Sogno Dream will be hanging up his lines for 2020 and heading to his fulltime career in the breeding shed.

    His owners, Bill and Dan Manes and Len and Randy Christopher, purchased this son of Cantab Hall in the 2012 Lexington Select Sale.

     Under the expert tutelage of Chris Beaver, he learned his lessons, and as a two-year-old won Pennsylvania Sires Stakes in 1:55.4.

    As a three-year-old Il Sogno Dream won many stake races as well as the prestigious Currier and Ives in 1:53.2.

   Il Sogno Dream became the fastest trotter of 2015 when he won the Allerage at Lexington’s Red Mile in a sizzling 1:50.2.

   From the fall of 2015 to 2019, Il Sogno Dream has divided his racing career between Canada with trainer Victor Puddy,  and the USA with trainer Chris Beaver. He has 33 wins including: the Pennsylvania AllStars, the Circuit City, and the Trotting Derby.

   He has been a regular winner in the Preferred at Mohawk and Woodbine.

     Il Sogno Dream set a new Woodbine Racetrack record of 1:51.2 on a cold November night shortly before the track closed to Standardbred racing.

    You can now find Il Sogno Dream in the stallion barn at Mac Lilley Farms in Dutton Ontario. His 2020 service fee is $3,000. For more information visit www.maclilleyfarms.net