Mac Lilley Farms and the Dutton/Dunwich- West Elgin Community Fund are thrilled to host the RCMP Musical Ride on Sunday September 18, 2022. Gates open at 1:30pm and the show starts at 3:00pm. There will be vendors, displays and food booths. Cost: $10.00/adult, $5.00/child age 5-12, and children under 5 years of age are free. Read More …
The Raceway at Western Fair in London, Ontario conducted draws for its upcoming Grand Circuit pacing event the $50,000 Forest City Pace. The Forest City Pace for fillies and mares was last contested ten years ago. Mac Lilley Farms is the new supporting sponsor, to mark the Dutton, ON breeding and training facility’s 50th year Read More …
When five-year-old pacer Bobcat Bay won earlier this month at The Meadowlands, it was a momentous occasion in the Musillami household. It had been 14 years since Chicago’s Nancy and Don Musillami had a horse compete at The Big M — fittingly Bobcat Bay’s mother, Madeira Island — and their homebred gelding made them proud, Read More …
Leading all horses in Canada in 2021 for wins, Dreamfair Zenfire earned an impressive 17 victories from 26 starts for trainer Marc Campbell and owners Ryan and Everett MacLeod of Souris, P.E.I. Bookending her $36,946 campaign with wins in her season debut on May 20 and final start of the year on December 18, the Read More …
Gerald Lilley has decided to trade his snow shovel for sunscreen.After six years of managing the Manestreet Stable in Rockwood, Ont., he will soon be spending his winters in Georgia, managing the Hawkinsville Training Centre.Canadian winters often means sleepless nights plowing snow and conditioning frozen tracks. Bundling up in layers of clothing, gloves, goggles, scarves and Read More …
The fans that packed the apron at Harrah’s Hoosier Park were treated to fireworks both on and off the track by way of the $110,000 Nadia Lobell and the return of the $75,000 Hoosier Cup at Harrah’s Hoosier Park Racing & Casino on Sunday (July 4). Both stakes produced dominant performances by way of the Read More …
The royally-bred and supremely talented Sunfire Blue Chip p, 2, 1:52.4f, 3, 1:48.3f, BT1:47.3 has been retired and will stand stud in Ontario for the 2021 breeding season. Sunfire Blue Chip will join the stallion roster at Mac Lilley Farms in Dutton, Ontario. He concludes his harness racing career with $1.6 million in earnings and Read More …
It was a cold and blustery day when Mac was born.It was -10 degrees Celsius and the snow from the night before had collected in small drifts on the inside his mother’s and father’s bedroom windowsill.His Mother, Cassie, had felt the well-known twinges of the early stages of labor as she packed the children’s lunches. Read More …
When Dresden Raceway’s trackman Hank Lilley announced his retirement earlier this year they didn’t have far to look as Alex Lilley and Darian Hamm stepped in to one of the hardest roles at the track. Lilley and Hamm have been awesome in their team approach to making Dresden Raceway one of the best surfaces Read More …
In 2017 and 2018, Mac Lilley Farms of Dutton, Ont., hosted Mother’s Day Open House events, welcoming hundreds of people to their Standardbred nursery to visit their mares, foals and stallions, and learn about Standardbred breeding and harness racing. Alex, Sadie (on top of Alex’s shoulders), Coral, Jate, and Laci holding Connor With Ruleen Read More …