Champion reinsman Chris Lewis will chase his eighth Slipper win when he drives The Real Ideal for trainer Peter Anderson.
Lewis’s winners in the Western Australian two-year-old Group 1 classic have been Pardon Me Boys (1987), Harry Gunn (1995), Saab (1997), Talladega (1999), The Jobs On (2004) ,Aikido Whitby (2006) and David Hercules(2009).
Real Ideal a son of American Ideal has won three of his five lifetime starts, his only unplaced run was when he was pulled up with broken gear in the race won by On Zak Whitby in May this year.
Chris Lewis was sixteen years old when he had his first race drive in South Australia and won with Classic Heir in an era when there were no concessions given to newcomers.
Chris has since won two Inter Dominions after the success of Carclew in 1976 and Village Kid in 1986.
Leading driver in the west more times than anyone else and in 2010 was inducted into the WA Hall Of Fame.
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