Jockey Cliff Berry

 BORN: 8/23/62, Joplin, Missouri

RESIDES: Jones, Oklahoma

FAMILY: Kim, wife; Baylin, Cale sons.     

        Berry is having an excellent 2010 Oaklawn meeting. He won the recent $150,000 Razorback on Win Willy and the week before that, the $60,000 Mountain Valley aboard Comedero.   

    “Win Willy likes to run late. His last quarter in theRazorback was very fast, reminding me a lot of his win inthe Rebel Stakes here last year. That Rebel win was his the colt’s first around two turns.”  Berry said further, “The other day in the Razorback I could have waited even longer to let him make his run,He put the others away so quick.”     

     In Oaklawn’s meeting last year, Cliff finished fifthin the overall standings, winning with 29 of his 222 rides. He had the fewest mounts of the other riders in the top five. At that 2009 Spa meeting, Berry won three stakes; the Count Fleet Sprint on Semaphore Man, Bayakoa astride Euphony and the Rebel on Win Willy.    

      At Oaklawn in 2008, Berry rode in 238 races, notched 38 wins, 27 seconds and 42 thirds. His victories included theInstant Racing Stakes astride Euphony. In 2006, my thrill was winning the Oklahoma Derby on Mr. Pursuit,” recalled Berry. When he first rode at Oaklawn, he was known as Cliff.