Champion two-year-old Gewan (Night Of Thunder), winner of last year's G1 Dewhurst Stakes and a leading contender for next month's 2,000 Guineas, has been fatally injured in a racecourse gallop at Kempton on Thursday morning.
The colt, trained by Andrew Balding for Harrison Li's Forz Europe Ltd, won three of his four starts last year, including the G3 Acomb Stakes at York.
A post on social media from Balding's Park House Stables confirmed the news. It read, “It is with extreme sadness that we report that Gewan, champion two-year-old of 2025, has suffered a fatal accident whilst having a racecourse gallop at Kempton this morning. The vets were on site and attended to the horse immediately but sadly he could not be saved.
“Our thoughts are with Harris Li and his family who owned Gewan, James Doyle, who was riding the horse and is luckily uninjured, and Marie Perrault, who has looked after the horse since he arrived at Kingsclere and rides him every day.”
By Night Of Thunder out of the Lethal Force mare Grey Mystere, Gewan was bred by Simon Sweeting and Charlie Wyatt under the banner of Overbury Stallions and Dukes Stud.
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