Dion Baker

Brighton is where he has truly learned his trade. Four wins from twelve races at the track tells you this is a horse that understands the course and the team knows how to place him there. His last win came eight weeks ago on 7 July, a reminder that while he is not flashy, he is still capable of finding the winner's enclosure regularly. Trained by Michael Wigham's Newmarket yard, Dion Baker operates in the lower classes — he has never won a race above Class 5 level in 33 attempts — but that is where he belongs, and where he can compete with genuine hope.

The recent form is mixed: a win, a second, a third, an eighth, a ninth, and a fourth from his last six races. That is the profile of a horse who is not consistent enough to be a betting favourite but reliable enough to keep running. With Adam Farragher in the saddle most often, they have won once from 15 races together, which suggests the jockey-horse combination has not quite clicked. At seven years old and still active, Dion Baker remains a horse worth following at Brighton on a dry day — a course specialist who has earned his reputation through steady, genuine racecourse performance rather than flashy success.