Baynoona

Trained by Sue Gardner out of a small yard in Longdown, Devon, Baynoona operates at the lower end of the racing ladder, most often in Class 6 races — the bread-and-butter level where most horses spend their working lives. Even there, her record reads one win from eight races at that level, roughly 1 in every 8, which is honest rather than impressive. Gardner's yard has been in decent form this season with seven winners, so the platform is there; Baynoona just hasn't been able to add to that tally since Bath.

Her best results come over a mile and one to a mile and two furlongs — a middle-distance trip that suits her build and stride. Across 12 races at those distances she's won once, about 8% of the time, or 1 in 12. Jockey Millie Wonnacott has been her most regular partner, and that combination has actually produced the best version of Baynoona — one win from five rides together is a 20% win rate, which is meaningfully better than her overall record. That's 1 in every 5 rides together resulting in a win, compared to 1 in every 19 across her whole career. The partnership clearly brings something out in her.

Her recent form makes sobering reading: finishing seventh, seventh, and eighth in her last three outings. She has raced as recently as yesterday, so she's very much in active training, and that level of consistency from the yard suggests this isn't a horse being nursed along — she's fit and ready. Whether she can rediscover the form that delivered that Bath win ten months ago is the question. For now, Baynoona is the kind of horse who keeps turning up, keeps trying, and occasionally reminds everyone why they keep faith with her.