Ed Dunlop is in Melbourne with Trip To Paris running in the Melbourne Cup and his father John made a winning trip to Paris on Sunday.

He saddled Robin of Navan, the favorite who won the G1 Gran Criterium at St Cloud by 2 1/2 lengths from Cloth of Stars, by Sea The Stars, and thid went to Satoshi Kobayashi's Notte Bianco - an omen for the Japanese runners in Melbourne?