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West Australian
30-05-2025
- Entertainment
- West Australian
Your Week: A great line-up of events across WA this week
Saturday, May 31, to September 28, The Art Gallery of WA, Perth The first Australian showing from this acclaimed US photographer brings together three main bodies of work, Deep Springs, Overpass, and Cross Country — giving a view of the artist's practice over 12 years and 85 works. Contis will be opening the show on May 31 from 5pm to 7pm, and giving an artist talk on June 1 from 11am. Free. But registration required for opening night at Saturday, May 31, 7pm, State Theatre Centre WA, Northbridge The American singer-songwriter comes to WA in support of her latest album Lemons, Limes And Orchids which sees her delve further into her jazz influences. She will also perform key songs from throughout her career. Tickets $98 from Sunday, June 1, 6pm, Freo Social, Fremantle A fundraiser for ocean conservation in Shark Bay hosted by Indigenous owned business Tidal Moon which harvests and exports sea cucumbers. Comedian Kevin Kropinyeri is flying in from South Australia to MC, the concert will include performances by Stephen Pigram (of The Pigram Brothers), Phil Walleystack, Prita Grealy, Morgan Joanel, Natasha Eldridge and Emma Sibosado. Tickets $49.70 from Moshtix Thursday June 5, 7pm, Regal Theatre, Subiaco The Aussie rock legends are back on the road in support of their new album, Straight Into The Sun. They also promise to play a range of Cruel Sea classics. Tickets $109.90 from Ticketek Wednesday, June 4, to Sunday, June 15, Yagan Square Get a taste of the best of the WA foodie scene with this festival that highlights the best of hospitality from across our great State. There will be drag bingo, slow-cooked brisket paired with bourbon, progressive dinners that hop between venues, and Italian feasts with a side of opera. For more info and to buy tickets, visit Thursday June 5, 7.30pm, Buffalo Club, Fremantle This winter music festival kicks off this week with a great line-up of local music curated by some of WA's most in-the-know music heads. Held over three weeks, if you can't make it down this week, there will also be shows on June 12 (at North Freo Nook) and 19 (at Hilton Trove). Tickets $34.70 from Oztix. For more info visit Thursday, June 5, at Freo Social, Fremantle, Friday, June 6, and Saturday, June 7, Regal Theatre, Subiaco. Aussie-Italian comedian Joe Avati is touring a new ensemble stage show featuring a powerhouse cast of Australian comedians. Joining Avati are comedians George Kapiniaris, Tahir, Sashi Perera, Joe White and Ting Lim in a celebration of culture, identity and everyday life. Tickets to the Fremantle show $75.60 from Moshtix, Subiaco shows $69.90 to $99.90 from Ticketek
Courier-Mail
29-04-2025
- Sport
- Courier-Mail
2025 Doomben 10,000: Overpass heads to Brisbane
Don't miss out on the headlines from Horse Racing. Followed categories will be added to My News. Group 1 star and seasoned traveller Overpass may have lost his $5m The Quokka crown, but will now add extra star power to the early stages of the Queensland winter carnival. Trainer Bjorn Baker and syndicator Scott Darby confirmed the $10.5m earner would attack the $1.5m Group 1 Doomben 10,000 on May 17. Overpass was striving to score his third consecutive The Quokka last Saturday but finished fifth, beaten a length-and-a-half by fairytale winner Jokers Grin, who is trained by 70-year-old Bernie Miller. • PUNT LIKE A PRO: Become a Racenet iQ member and get expert tips – with fully transparent return on investment statistics – from Racenet's team of professional punters at our Pro Tips section. SUBSCRIBE NOW! Overpass, rated a $6 chance in the Doomben 10,000, will now add some extra snap and crackle to the early stages of the winter carnival. 'For sure, he will go to the Doomben 10,000, we are definitely going that way as long as all goes well,' Baker told Racenet. 'He has got a bit of a travel in front of him, but that's what we will do. 'It will just be the one run in Queensland. 'In The Quokka, I thought he was OK and still ran well and didn't get beaten that far. 'Maybe, it was a little bit of a risk going in second-up and maybe that took its toll. 'We thought we could get away with it, three weeks between runs, given he is a little bit older. 'Next year, we would look at going to The Quokka first-up.' • Better than Black Caviar? Dye's big call on The Everest favourite Ka Ying Rising Overpass has raced in the Doomben 10,000 before, finishing second behind Giga Kick in 2023. As the Queensland winter carnival stars start to align, Warwick Farm trainer Matthew Smith indicated there was a chance The Quokka and Group 1 TJ Smith Stakes placegetter Headwall could also head north for the winter. 'I won't make a decision until I get him home, I will probably know what we are doing with him early next week,' Smith said. Meanwhile, Glen Thompson indicated last Saturday's Group 1 Australasian Oaks winner Benagil could be set for the Group 1 Queensland Oaks (2200m) at Eagle Farm on June 7. Benagil was an emphatic Oaks winner in South Australia and there were emotional scenes given the passing of co-trainer Michael Moroney earlier this year. Bjorn Baker. Picture: Getty Images • What the jockeys said: 2025 Australasian Oaks Benagil is the $4.50 favourite for the Queensland Oaks and Thompson told Racenet: 'She is a chance of coming to Queensland, depending on the next week and how she is after her (South Australian) trip.' Maiden filly Sweltering finished runner-up behind Benagil in Adelaide on Saturday and will almost certainly embark on a Queensland campaign, according to co-trainer Trent Busuttin. Originally published as Dethroned The Quokka champion Overpass set for 2025 Doomben 10,000
News.com.au
28-04-2025
- Sport
- News.com.au
Dethroned The Quokka champion Overpass set for 2025 Doomben 10,000
Group 1 star and seasoned traveller Overpass may have lost his $5m The Quokka crown, but will now add extra star power to the early stages of the Queensland winter carnival. Trainer Bjorn Baker and syndicator Scott Darby confirmed the $10.5m earner would attack the $1.5m Group 1 Doomben 10,000 on May 17. Overpass was striving to score his third consecutive The Quokka last Saturday but finished fifth, beaten a length-and-a-half by fairytale winner Jokers Grin, who is trained by 70-year-old Bernie Miller. • PUNT LIKE A PRO: Become a Racenet iQ member and get expert tips – with fully transparent return on investment statistics – from Racenet's team of professional punters at our Pro Tips section. SUBSCRIBE NOW! Overpass, rated a $6 chance in the Doomben 10,000, will now add some extra snap and crackle to the early stages of the winter carnival. 'For sure, he will go to the Doomben 10,000, we are definitely going that way as long as all goes well,' Baker told Racenet. 'He has got a bit of a travel in front of him, but that's what we will do. 'It will just be the one run in Queensland. 'In The Quokka, I thought he was OK and still ran well and didn't get beaten that far. 'Maybe, it was a little bit of a risk going in second-up and maybe that took its toll. 'We thought we could get away with it, three weeks between runs, given he is a little bit older. 'Next year, we would look at going to The Quokka first-up.' "I think he might have got the winning hand." JOKERS GRIN storms home from the clouds & wins the $5 million Quokka! ðŸ'¥ — (@Racing) April 26, 2025 • Overpass has raced in the Doomben 10,000 before, finishing second behind Giga Kick in 2023. As the Queensland winter carnival stars start to align, Warwick Farm trainer Matthew Smith indicated there was a chance The Quokka and Group 1 TJ Smith Stakes placegetter Headwall could also head north for the winter. 'I won't make a decision until I get him home, I will probably know what we are doing with him early next week,' Smith said. Meanwhile, Glen Thompson indicated last Saturday's Group 1 Australasian Oaks winner Benagil could be set for the Group 1 Queensland Oaks (2200m) at Eagle Farm on June 7. Benagil was an emphatic Oaks winner in South Australia and there were emotional scenes given the passing of co-trainer Michael Moroney earlier this year. Benagil is the $4.50 favourite for the Queensland Oaks and Thompson told Racenet: 'She is a chance of coming to Queensland, depending on the next week and how she is after her (South Australian) trip.' Maiden filly Sweltering finished runner-up behind Benagil in Adelaide on Saturday and will almost certainly embark on a Queensland campaign, according to co-trainer Trent Busuttin.
News.com.au
25-04-2025
- Sport
- News.com.au
Ray Thomas column: Bjorn Baker eyes $25m prizemoney milestone in Overpass' bid for Quokka hat-trick
Bjorn Baker can take his stable earnings for the season over the $25m prizemoney barrier if brilliant sprinter Overpass completes a three-peat in the $5m The Quokka (1200m) at Ascot on Saturday. Baker has had a breakout season with his runners winning 128 races – equalling his stable's previous best set in 2019-20 – and there is still more than three months of the 2024-24 season remaining. • PUNT LIKE A PRO: Become a Racenet iQ member and get expert tips – with fully transparent return on investment statistics – from Racenet's team of professional punters at our Pro Tips section. SUBSCRIBE NOW! The trainer has already prepared the winners of a career-best $23.5m this season which easily eclipses the $14.3m his runners earned in 2023-24. The only trainers to have won more prizemoney than Baker this season are Ciaron Maher with $53.7m and Chris Waller on $47.5m. Overpass is racing for $2m first prizemoney in The Quokka over the Ascot 1200m course where he is unbeaten in four attempts. The talented six-year-old's unbeaten Perth record includes the only two editions of The Quokka so far and successive Group 1 Winterbottom Stakes. Baker said Overpass returns to Perth in arguably the best form of his stellar career after his close second in the Group 1 TJ Smith Stakes at Randwick earlier this month. 'Overpass is going great, I think he's going as well as he ever has during his career, and he just does so well in Perth,'' Baker said. 'He's drawn a little wide but he has such good early speed, he will slide across, settle on the pace and do his thing. Then they will have to try and run him down.'' If Overpass does win a third successive Quokka, he will become only the fourth horse in Australian racing history to earn more than $12m prizemoney. Baker is at Ascot for Overpass' Quokka hat-trick bid but he will be keeping a close eye on results at Royal Randwick where the trainer has some good winning chances. They include the speedy Passeggiata who is attempting to snap a winless streak that stretches nearly three years in the Jeff Pendlebury Handicap (1000m). Passeggiata is resuming but has shown her brilliant natural pace to win two barrier trials by big margins in recent weeks. 'Her trials have been really good,'' Baker said. 'If anything she is more settled than before and we know she has the ability but needs to show it again on race day.'' Baker found it difficult to split his last-start winners Istolea Merc and Yankee One who clash in the NSW Bookmakers Co-Operative Handicap (1400m). 'Istolea Merc is a progressive horse,'' Baker said. 'I'm not sure about him on a really wet track but we will ride him where he is comfortable and he will be hitting the line hard. 'Yankee One is rock hard fit, we will be positive from gate one and she will be hard to beat.'' ROWDY PARTY LOOMS There's been a significant betting move for Victorian mare Extremely Rowdy in the Neville Waters Handicap (1200m). Extremely Rowdy, trained by Peter Gelagotis, firmed from $15 to $9.50 after a TAB punter placed a wager of $7500 at $11. If Extremely Rowdy wins at Randwick, the punter will collect a cool $82,500. Hall of Fame trainer Chris Waller can set a record for most Group 1 wins in a season with Movin Out in the $1m Australasian Oaks (2000m) at Morphettville. Waller has already trained 18 Group 1 winners this season, equalling his own record he set in 2018-19. Movin Out goes to the Oaks on the back-up after her very impressive win in the Mornington Guineas last Saturday. Waller's racing manager Charlie Duckworth described Movin Out as a highly-strung filly and conceded 'barrier one is a negative as she doesn't want to be cluttered up'. 'But the back-up should take some freshness out of her,'' Duckworth said. Movin Out is challenging for Oaks favouritism at $5 behind Benagil at $4. At Royal Randwick, Duckworth gave a big push for Waller's new stable recruit Wootton Verni who makes his Australian debut in the Precise Air Handicap (1500m). Wootton Verni won five of his nine starts in France including a Group 3 race over 2100m at Saint-Cloud. Duckworth said Wootton Verni 'trialled unbelievably' last week when closing fast for second behind Oh Diamond Lil at Warwick Farm. 'James (McDonald, jockey) could not have been happier with his trial – I think he should be too good,'' Duckworth declared. BANDIT FLYING BUT UP IN CLASS Trainer Kerry Parker concedes the promising Flying Bandit is confronted by a sizeable challenge in the Tom Bingle Handicap (1800m). 'Flying Bandit did a good job to win at Hawkesbury last start but he is jumping a fair bit in grade to a benchmark 94,'' Parker said. 'He does drop 7kg and gets in light so if he is good enough he will have his chance.'' Flying Bandit made it five wins from 10 starts when he shouldered 59.5kg to win a benchmark 78 over 1800m, albeit narrowly. 'That's just him, if he is going to get there it is always the last few strides,'' Parker said. 'We have got to wait for him to build into that big action of his but he is starting to work out where the line is, that's for sure. 'This is a big test for him but I've always had a good opinion of him, he has plenty of upside.'' BOOKIES STILL VALUED The seventh annual Bookmakers Recognition Day at Royal Randwick will honour four of their own as well as offer free entry to the 10-race meeting. Neville Waters, Terry Marskell, Tom Bingle and Jeff Pendlebury have more than 200 years of combined experience as bookmakers and they will be formally recognised and have races named in tribute. Chairman of the NSW Bookmakers Cooperative David Dwyer said the four bookmakers along with their many colleagues across NSW added great colour and attraction to race days. 'Bookmakers have been battling with punters across NSW for more than 150 years, providing that unique colour and excitement that only being on course can match,'' Dwyer said. 'The Sydney betting ring is still the strongest in Australia and offers punters big and small the most competitive odds of anywhere. 'Some of the bookmakers honoured on Saturday have also travelled vast distances in their careers to offer punters an on course service in country towns and at picnic meetings. 'We are pleased to join with the ATC and thank the Club for recognising the important role that bookmakers provide on race days all year round.''
Sydney Morning Herald
25-04-2025
- Sport
- Sydney Morning Herald
Baker turns to twin Randwick hopes in chase for interstate treble
Warwick Farm trainer Bjorn Baker was looking to twin chances in the ninth race at Randwick as he chases success in three states on Saturday. Baker is in Perth overseeing the preparations of $2.05 (Sportsbet) favourite Overpass, which is hunting a third consecutive win in the $5 million The Quokka (1200m) at Ascot, where the six-year-old has also claimed the past two group 1 Winterbottom Stakes. Baker also has Imperial Force, another Darby Racing galloper, as the $3.20 favourite for the group 2 $250,000 Tobin Bronze Stakes (1200m) at Morphettville. Baker is sixth in the Australian premiership with 128 winners at a strike rate of 21.8 per cent – a figure better than trainers higher on the list – and is coming off breakthrough victories in the Doncaster Mile and Sydney Cup during the autumn carnival. He was confident frontrunner Overpass, which has to overcome barrier 10, was primed for the Quokka after a close second to Briasa when first up in the $3 million TJ Smith Stakes at Randwick three weeks ago. 'I think he's in tip-top order,' Baker said. 'The firm track suits at Ascot. We've had the same routine, so we are pretty happy with him.' Snitzel colt Imperial Force has gate one for his interstate assignment, which comes after finishing second in the group 2 Arrowfield Sprint at Randwick two weeks ago. 'He's coming off a good Arrowfield run, so I'm really happy with him,' Baker said. 'I think he can run a good race, and he'll be aided by a good gate. He's in good order.' Baker's in-form stable has six runners at Randwick, including Istolea Merc and Yankee One in the ninth, a benchmark 72 handicap (1400m).
