John Dunlop was all smiles after the Kildangan Stud Oaks in Ireland last Sunday.

No, he didn't win the race with Time Away, she could finish only sixth.

But Dunlop's son Edward, who trains at Newmarket, saddled first and second.

The Arundel trainer and wife Sue congratulated their son after Lailani had beaten her stable companion Mot Juste by a neck. Dunlop senior joked: "You could say I sired the winner."

Frankie Dettori rode the winner, owned by Sheik Maktoum al Maktoum, while the all-conquering Ballydoyle Stables of Aidan O'Brien, trainer of Galileo, could finish only third with Karsavina ridden by Mick Kinane. Sue Dunlop, whose younger son Harry is assistant to Henry Cecil, said: "Somehow you feel more thrilled by your childrens' achievement than your own."

Pat Eddery reported that Time Away, third in the French Oaks at Chantilly, did not stay the one-and-a-half miles.

Father and son may be in opposition again soon as Time Away is aimed at next month's one-and-a-quarter-mile Vodaphone Nassau Stakes at Goodwood where Lailani is a probable starter.

The Nassau is building up to an epic contest as Irish Guineas and Epsom Oaks winner Imagine and French Guineas winner Rose Gypsy are both set to run.