Trip To Paris makes Ed Dunlop’s gamble pay

Ed Dunlop’s “strange entry” for Trip To Paris in the Betway Chester Cup yielded a princely sum as the emerging stayer delivered a show-stopping performance on the Roodee.

Wins at Lingfield and Ripon, most latterly for the first time over two miles, convinced the Newmarket handler to throw the dice in one of the most keenly contested handicaps of the Flat season.

Trip To Paris (10-1) answered every call under a wise Graham Lee as the Champs Elysees gelding got every yard of the extended two and a quarter miles.