Dubai: Ed Dunlop’s Trip To Paris, who was supplmented to Thursday’s Ascot Gold Cup at a cost of £35,000, wasted no time repaying his connections’ faith when completing a convincing victory in the brutal two-and-a-half mile contest, which was worth a lucrative £229,854.

A winner of the Chester Cup earlier this year, the four-year-old son of Champs Elysees outstayed several accomplished rivals, including the highly-regarded Forgotten Rules, to post a length-and-a-quarter victory over the late-finishing Kingfisher, ridden by the in-form Ryan Moore.

Forgotten Rules, ridden by Pat Smullen for trainer Dermott Weld, was a neck back in third.

Jockey Graham Lee was recording his first Royal Ascot win and said: “He gave me a great ride. In the parade ring he was switched off and he raced that way, just conserving his energy.

“I’ve had a good day in the office, I’ll enjoy it. They’ve supplemented this guy for a lot of money, so fair do’s to the sporting connections for that gesture.”

Trip To Paris gifted Dunlop an eighth Royal success and first since Contributor won the Wolferton Handicap 12 months ago.

Dunlop is the son of former British champion trainer John Dunlop, who trained Ragstone to win the Gold Cup back in 1974.

“It’s amazing. My parents have the Gold Cup on the dining room at home and it’s been there since 1974,” said the trainer.

“Credit goes to the owners. They bullied me into supplementing and it came off.

Dunlop, who saddled Red Cadeaux to finish runner-up in the Melbourne Cup on three occasions, said a trip to Australia ‘will be considered’.

“He’ll probably be badly handicapped now but he can quicken and he goes on any ground. He’s proven today he’s a very good horse.”

The handler also saddled Red Cadeaux to finish second to Animal Kingdom in the 2013 Dubai World Cup (G1) at Meydan and sixth behind African Story the following year.

Meanwhile, luck deserted Dubai-owned horses earlier in the day as Godolphin’s Log Out Island was beaten by half a length by the Aidan O’Brien-trained Waterloo Bridge in the Group 2 Norfolk Stakes for two-year-olds, while the much-fancied Pleascach suffered a similar fate in the Group 2 Ribblesdale Stakes.

Trained by Jim Bolger for Godolphin, the Irish 1,000 Guineas winner looked to have every chance when pushed to the front entering the final two furlongs by her jockey Kevin Manning, but was soon passed by Moore astride the David Wachman-trained Curvy approaching the line.

Wachman paid tribute to ‘gentleman’ Bolger, saying: “Jim is a great competitor and a gentleman and it’s usually the other way around.”

Bolger added: “We think she stayed all right, it just didn’t happen today.

“She’s very versatile and we have options over a mile, a mile-and-a-quarter and a mile-and-a-half. Curvy has been improving every day of the week.”

Another Dubai-owned horse to miss the mark was Mustadeem, who finished third behind Time Test in the Group 2 Tercentenary Stakes.