Dave Nevison's Goodwood tips for Thursday after two 8-1 winners

This is possibly the best quality and most competitive of the week and justifies having two stabs at finding the winner. 

Parole D’Oro is coming to Goodwood hoping for better luck in running than he has enjoyed at both Ascot and Newmarket recently, which may be a little ambitious given how things can go at this meeting.

He went into a lot of notebooks when finishing fast and late in the Britannia after a hopeless run through when making his effort and was then narrowly beaten by the seasoned campaigner Dutch Decoy at the July meeting.

The booking of Ryan Moore for Michael Bell always takes the eye and, if anyone can steer Parole D’Oro through, it is Moore, who might still be on a well-handicapped horse at just 2lb higher than recent efforts. 

Hymnbook might just go under the radar with so many runners from much fancier yards here and could be value.

Sean Woods's gelding ran a really strong second to be beaten just a nose on his handicap debut. His maiden win at Nottingham looks stronger now than it did, with both the runner-up and third, who were comfortably beaten, both winning since.

Even though Hymnbook has been beaten since, it was in a very strong race and very narrowly. He is not guaranteed to get this trip on his pedigree, but his running style suggests he may, and I feel the likely price compensates. 

Richard Hannon withdrew Wheels Of Fire from the big field all-aged handicap on the first day, but has left him in this race which is confined to three-year-olds which might well be significant.

He looks a lively outsider at least judged on his desperately unlucky run at Catterick last time when he was blocked on more than one occasion despite it being just a six-runner sprint.

He previously ran possibly his best ever race over this course and distance, his second good run from just two starts at the track and looks set to go well again. 

Sea Force is taken to reverse form with the prolific Knights Gold after his narrow defeat at Ascot last time out.

William Haggas’s gelding is 2lb better off for getting beaten a nose which should turn things around, and the likelihood of a very strong pace and the application of cheekpices for the first time might make more positive difference than the weight pull. Tom Marquand also takes over.