Clearing killed on gallops John Gosden`s classy three-year-old colt Clearing has been fatally injured on the gallops at Manton, it has emerged today.The Victor Chandler European Free Handicap winner was put down after shattering a hind pastern bone during his final work-out for tomorrow`s St James`s Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot.Clearing had finished a close third, beaten a head and the same, in the French 2000 Guineas on his latest start.And he was due to renew rivalry with his Longchamp conquerors Noverre and Vahorimix in the Group One event on the opening day of the Royal meeting.'Clearing was a tough little horse - he tried so hard. The bad ones don`t get hurt, do they?,' his jockey Richard Hughes told the Racing Post.'I thought he was a Group One horse and he had a live chance in the St James`s Palace.'The loss of Clearing is the second major blow to trainer Gosden and owner Prince Khaled Abdulla following a serious injury to French Derby hope Terrestrial last month.
