Trip To Paris added to Ascot Gold Cup field

Ed Dunlop’s Chester Cup winner Trip To Paris has been supplemented for Thursday’s Ascot Gold Cup at a cost of £35,000.

Also a winner at Lingfield and Ripon this season, his progress showed no signs of stopping when second to Vent De Force in the Henry II after a troubled passage.

With slight doubts about the participation of the market leader Forgotten Rules on the account of fast ground, Dunlop and the owners, the La Grange Partnership, felt it was worth chancing their arm.