Trip To Paris

Trip To Paris
Racing silks of La Grange Partnership
Sire	Champs Elysees
Grandsire	Danehill
Dam	La Grande Zoa
Damsire	Fantastic Light
Sex	Gelding
Foaled	8 February 2011
Country	Ireland
Color	Bay
Breeder	Paul Monaghan & T J Monaghan
Owner	La Grange Partnership
Trainer	Ed Dunlop
Record	27: 6-3-3
Earnings	£808,062
Major wins
Chester Cup (2015) Ascot Gold Cup (2015)

Trip To Paris (foaled 8 February 2011) is an Irish-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse. After showing modest form in his first two season he emerged as a top-class stayer a four-year-old in 2015 winning the Chester Cup in May before recording his biggest win in the Ascot Gold Cup

Trip To Paris is a bay gelding with a broad white blaze bred in Ireland by Paul Monaghan & T J Monaghan. He is from the first crop of foals sired by Champs Elysees whose wins included the Hollywood Turf Cup Stakes, Northern Dancer Turf Stakes and Canadian International Stakes. Trip To Paris's dam La Grande Zoa showed no ability as a racehorse but was a granddaughter of Royal Sister, a broodmare who produced Ezzoud and Distant Relative (Sussex Stakes, Prix du Moulin).

As a foal, Trip To Paris was offered for sale at Tattersalls in November 2011 and was bought for 37,000 guineas by Oak Farm Stables. He was sent back to Tattersalls a year later but was bought back by his vendor. In May 2013 he appeared at Tattersalls for a third time and was bought for 20,000 guineas by the bloodstock agent Federico Barberini. He entered the ownership of the La Grange Partnership and was sent into training with Ed Dunlop at Newmarket, Suffolk.

Trip To Paris began his racing career in a seven furlong maiden race at Sandown Park Racecourse on 17 July and finished fourteenth of the sixteen runners behind Shifting Power. A week later he started at odds of 7/1 for a maiden on the Polytrack surface at Lingfield Park and recorded his first success, beating Floating Ballerino by one and three quarter lengths. On his only other appearance of the season he finished second to Chief Barker in a Nursery handicap at Newmarket Racecourse in August.