Dream Show at the Farmington Polo Club

The “Dream Show at the Farmington Polo Club” is not a random one-day local cruise night. It’s the Sunday car-show piece of the 2026 Dream Ride Experience — a much larger charity weekend at the Farmington Polo Club in Farmington, Connecticut, running August 21 to 23, 2026. The practical reason to care is simple: if you only saw the car-calendar listing, you’d know the date and address, but not what kind of show this actually is, how it fits into the weekend, or what the ticket rules are. The clearer picture is that Sunday, August 23 is the show day, and it sits inside a bigger fundraiser tied to The Hometown Foundation and Dream Riders from Special Olympics communities. ### What is the Dream Show, exactly? It’s a judged car show at the Farmington Polo Club, built as part of Dream Ride rather than as a standalone swap-meet style event. The event page frames it as one of the larger benefit car shows in the region, with entrants and spectators coming from across the Northeast and with classes spanning everything from American vintage cars to Italian exotics, British sports cars, race cars, Jeeps, and custom street rods. (classiccars.ride-ct.com) ### When is it? The date you want is Sunday, August 23, 2026. That’s the “23rd” the calendar entry is pointing to. Dream Ride’s ticketing page also places it inside a full weekend that starts Friday, August 21 and runs through Sunday, August 23, 2026. ### Where is it? The location is the Farmington Polo Club in Farmington, CT. The RIDE-CT calendar lists the address as 152 Town Farm Road in Farmington. (dreamride.org) Dream Ride’s own pages name the same venue, even when they don’t always repeat the street number in the preview text. If you’re navigating from the calendar, that 152 Town Farm Road listing is the concrete address to use. ### What time does it start? (classiccars.ride-ct.com) This is the annoying part — the quick calendar snippet visible in search does not show a start time for the Dream Show, and the ticket page preview confirms an on-site deadline for show vehicles but not a public gate-opening hour for Sunday. What it does say clearly is that Dream Show vehicles must remain on-site until 3:00 p.m., and judged-show entrants are encouraged to set up on Saturday, August 22, under the show tents. So the event date is confirmed, but the public Sunday start time is not clearly surfaced in the pages available here. ### Is this a vintage show or an exotic show? Basically, both. The marketing leans hard into high-end machinery — Ferrari, McLaren, Koenigsegg, Pagani, Lamborghini, Aston Martin, and more — but the judged classes are much broader than that. There are categories for early American cars from 1900 onward, muscle cars, classics, customs, race cars, Asian cars, off-road vehicles, and marque-specific buckets like Alfa Romeo and Porsche. (classiccars.ride-ct.com) ### What does a ticket get you? For 2026, a Dream Show ticket is listed at $75. That includes general admission for Sunday, August 23 and one vehicle in the Dream Show. It also includes the option to drive a Dream Rider in Saturday’s Dream Cruise, which is a useful detail because Dream Ride sells separate Saturday cruise access too. ### Why is the Saturday setup worth knowing? Because this is not just “roll in Sunday morning and park on grass.” Accepted judged-show cars are encouraged to arrive Saturday, August 22 so they can be placed under show tents, protected from weather, and kept with overnight security. (dreamride.org) That tells you the event is organized more like a curated concours-style display than a casual cars-and-coffee. (reg.dreamride.org) ### So what’s the takeaway? If you’re planning around this event, lock in Sunday, August 23, 2026 at Farmington Polo Club, 152 Town Farm Road, Farmington. But don’t assume the bare calendar listing tells the whole story — the real event is the Dream Show inside Dream Ride’s larger charity weekend, with judged entries, Saturday setup, and Sunday display rules. (classiccars.ride-ct.com) (dreamride.org)