Cliff Berry’s talent, work ethic, professionalism, and honesty have helped him notch more than 20 riding titles in Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas during his 35 years in the saddle. But come December, the 52-year-old journeyman plans to call it a career. Berry presently is riding at Lone Star Park near Dallas, and when the meet ends in July, he will head to his home track of Remington Park in Oklahoma City.

“I’m thinking about retiring after Remington,” Berry said. “That’s what my plan is right now.”

ELMONT, N.Y. – Conspicuous by his absence from Saturday’s Grade 1 Manhattan at Belmont Park was Imagining, who was held out of that race to point for the Grade 1 United Nations at Monmouth Park on July 5.

Though Imagining has won several races at Belmont, including the Grade 1 Man o’ War in 2014, trainer Shug McGaughey said the horse is better on turf courses with tighter turns.

“He ran second at Hollywood, he’s run good at Gulfstream, he’s run good at Aqueduct,” McGaughey said. “I also think he likes a little time between his races.”

ELMONT, N.Y. – Michael de Kock has been an extremely successful trainer in South Africa and Dubai, and he’s strongly considering opening up a stable in North America in the next few years.

“It could be on the radar,” de Kock said Friday at Belmont Park, where he was to run Mubtaahij in the $1.5 million Belmont Stakes on Saturday. “We’re looking at it. I enjoy the racing here. I think there’s lot of opportunities at different tracks. There’s turf, there’s dirt, there’s a lot of opportunities for horses.

CYPRESS, Calif. – My Sweet Addiction, the upset winner of the Grade 1 Vanity Stakes at Santa Anita on May 9, worked five furlongs in 1:00 at Los Alamitos on Friday for an expected start next Saturday.

My Sweet Addiction’s next race has not been determined, trainer Marty Jones said. The options are the $100,000 Adoration Stakes at 1 1/16 miles at Santa Anita or the $200,000 Fleur de Lis Stakes at 1 1/8 miles at Churchill Downs.

“We’re deciding between the two,” Jones said.

Far Right, 15th in the Kentucky Derby in his last start, is “all systems go” for the June 20 Ohio Derby, said trainer Ron Moquett. The winner of the Smarty Jones and Southwest stakes at Oaklawn this past winter, Far Right already has breezed three times since the Kentucky Derby.

At least one other Derby also-ran stabled at Churchil Downsl, War Story (16th), also is being pointed to the $500,000 Ohio Derby at ThistleDown.

Work All Week came out of his runner-up finish in the Aristides last weekend at Churchill Downs in good order and will be considered for either of two upcoming stakes, trainer Roger Brueggemann said Friday from the Trackside training center. Those six-furlong races are the $125,000 Iowa Sprint Handicap on June 26 at Prairie Meadows and the Grade 2, $250,000 Smile Sprint on July 5 at Gulfstream Park.

A two-length defeat behind Alsvid in the six-furlong Aristides was the first loss in 11 career races over dirt for Work All Week, the 2014 sprint champion in North America.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – There are a lot of people excited about Urban Achiever arriving at Hastings this weekend. A 2-year-old colt by Idiot Proof, Urban Achiever is the first horse owned by the Hastings Racing Club. Trainer Steve Henson purchased Urban Achiever on behalf of the club for $25,000 out of the Barretts May sale of 2-year-olds in training May 28 at Del Mar.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Lea will make his first start since finishing third in the March 28 Dubai World Cup when he takes on the Todd Pletcher-trained Commissioner in the Grade 1 Stephen Foster Handicap at Churchill Downs next Saturday night.

Bred and owned by Claiborne Farm and Adele Dilschneider, Lea has earned nearly $1.9 million in his 15-race career. Prior to finishing four lengths behind Prince Bishop in the World Cup, he was second as the favorite behind Constitution, also trained by Pletcher, in the Grade 1 Donn Handicap at Gulfstream Park.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Trainer George Weaver said that Tencendur will make his next start in the $500,000 Ohio Derby at ThistleDown on June 20.

Tencendur finished second in the Grade 1 Wood and 17th in the Kentucky Derby. A New York bred son of Warrior’s Reward, Tencendur made the lead in early stretch before proving no match for Frosted in the Wood. He never factored in the Derby, but has trained extremely well in preparation for his return, working a very impressive five furlongs in 59 seconds before galloping out six furlongs in 1:12 in company here last Saturday.

ARCADIA, Calif. – California-based turf filly Spanish Queen is headed east for a July 4 showdown with the undefeated New York-based Lady Eli.

The top turf filly in the West following a decisive victory in the Grade 1 American Oaks last Saturday at Santa Anita, Spanish Queen will aim for the Grade 1, $1 million Belmont Oaks Invitational at Belmont Park, where she is expected to meet Lady Eli.