Leading Champagne And Dewhurst Stakes Fancy Snapped Up By Yulong

[Wandering Eyes]

Impressive Acomb Stakes winner Gewan will line out for the Champagne Stakes at Doncaster on September 13 in the colours of Yuesheng Zhang after the Yulong boss struck a deal for the unbeaten son of Night Of Thunder who could one day end up at the powerful outfit's Ace Stud.

Trained by Andrew Balding, Gewan was bought by bloodstock agent Billy Jackson-Stops on behalf of Al Rabban Racing from Mick Murphy of Longways Stables for €80,000 at the Arqana Breeze-Up Sale. He created a massive impression on debut at Newbury, winning a 7f contest at his ease, before taking the scalp of a couple of talking horses in the G3 Acomb Stakes at York. 

Gewan will line out for the G2 Champagne Stakes on Saturday before his new connections eye a potential tilt at the G1 Dewhurst Stakes at Newmarket, for which the colt is as short as 8-1.

Paul Curran, bloodstock and racing manager at Ace Stud, commented, “The plan is for Gewan to run in the Champagne Stakes and, obviously, we will reassess after Doncaster but the plan would be to go for the Dewhurst at Newmarket. We have done our homework on him and like him a lot. He fits exactly what we are looking for and is a very exciting horse for the future.”

Gewan was sent to post at odds of 11-2 in an Acomb market that was dominated by TDN Rising Star Distant Storm [11-10 favourite] and Aidan O'Brien's highly-regarded Italy. While Distant Storm, himself a €1.9 million breeze-up graduate from Arqana, ran freely and eventually finished third, Gewan pulled a-length-and-a-half clear of Italy in second to post one of the more impressive juvenile displays of the season thus far.

Notable Acomb Stakes winners include subsequent 2,000 Guineas hero Chaldean while subsequent Irish 2,000 Guineas scorer Phoenix Of Spain won the race in 2018.

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