BILLY M LEWIS
Birthdate:  August 3, 1943; Memphis, Tennessee
Family:  Daughters, Tammy, Bridget and Michelle; Sons, Billy and Blake
Residence: Garden Grove, California

Top Career Moments:
- Won the Summer Distaff with Shippey Lane in 2004.
- Won the Firecracker for fillies with MS Jolly in 2004.
- Won the Helen Logan Memorial Distaff with Rodania Arbi in 2004.
- Piloted Favoritt to wins in the 2003 Oasis Handicap and the 2004 Winter Open.
-  Won the ARC Championship Classic and Los Alamitos Marathon with Magellan FRSB in 2000.
- Won the Drinkers of the Wind and California futurities, and Arabian Cup Juvenile with Croixnoire in 2000.
-  Won a combined 10 stakes races with Arabian standouts Shallimar Nabu and Saltiki. 
-  Darley Trainer of the Year in 1985 and 1997

Career Profile: Billy is the track's all-time leading Arabian trainer and will likely become the all-time leader in Arabian stakes win this year as well. The trainer has simply been the breed's dominant conditioner the past five years, winning the title three of those campaigns. Billy had raced at Delaware Park for most of the 1980s before first visiting Los Alamitos in 1992. He has made the Orange County track his home every year since, with the exception of 1999 and 2003. "You get to run more races out here," Lewis said of his decision to return to Los Alamitos. "You get to run in your conditions more out here. There's just more opportunities to run." A quarter horse trainer in the 1970s, Billy began his Arabian business as a show horse trainer in 1980.  "I actually started out showing Arabs the first year, and I didn't like that," Lewis recalled. "I got the people that were showing Arabs involved in racing, and we've been racing ever since." His top horses include the outstanding mares Shippey Lane and Rodania Arbi.