Goodwood tips: Dave Nevison's best bets for day one

I am looking forward very much to this week’s Qatar Goodwood Festival, and hopefully my good form will continue! Good luck with all your bets over the next five days, and please remember to gamble responsibly.

Enfjaar will be a strong favourite for this after his win in the John Smith's Cup at York. and rightly so as I believe he will once again hold those that take him on again from that race. 

However, he has gone up in the weights by 6lb for that victory, and that means that Stay Well, who was runner-up to him at Chelmsford on his penultimate start, is now 11lb better off for a 1¾ length defeat.

Hughie Morrison hasn’t run Stay Well since, and he looks as though he has been aimed for this traditional curtain-raiser.

It is also fair to say that Stay Well goes very well on the all-weather, but he has been placed in a Zetland Gold Cup off a 6lb higher mark, and he disappointed last season when he was running over too far, but it seems clear that all he needs is a well-run contest over ten furlongs, which is guaranteed here.

With a favourable low draw, he looks set to go well.

Fair Wind might be a 'good thing', in my opinion, to win this race off just a 4lb higher mark than last time at Ascot where he still managed to score, despite getting obstructed twice in the second half of the race. 

He ended up winning comfortably by just half a length from Albasheer, who won at Ascot on Saturday, so the form looks very strong. 

Pat Dobbs is two from two aboard Fair Wind this season and clearly gets on very well with the Owen Burrows-trained four-year-old, and he will enjoy the guaranteed fast pace here. 

The selection is still lightly-raced for a sprint handicapper of his age, too, and looks as though he still has plenty of upside compared to his rivals.

This filly hit form in this race last season (and did me a good turn having tipped her up!) and Executive Decision definitely looks to have been primed for the repeat bid this time around. 

Trainer Jamie Osborne has managed to get her on a mark just 3lb higher than when she won this event 12 months but she is actually 3lb lower than her last winning mark as she followed up at Chepstow off a rating of 90 last year. 

On her past two outings, she has finished well having been out of contention early and raced wide last time, so it certainly looks as though there is more to come. 

The ground is exactly as it was last season and she is in exactly the same stall, so a very good run looks highly likely.