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With a team of roughly 20 horses set to take on the competition at Royal Ascot, George Boughey recently welcomed the press in to watch his hopefuls gallop.

Fans of jumps racing will hardly believe it, but it has been 17 years since John Murphy won the Champion Chase with Newmill. Fast forward to Saturday, and he has a live Derby at Epsom contender in White Birch. Brian Sheerin stops by to check in with the trainer and talk about his Derby chances.

For Mariann Klay and Des Leadon watching Arrest (IRE) win the G3 Chester Vase was a special day. The three-year-old colt could run at Epsom in the Derby so we caught up with Mariann.

At this year's GI Preakness S., Shug McGaughey is aiming to win a Triple Crown of his own. The Hall of Famer won his first Classic race in 1989, when Easy Goer famously defeated Sunday Silence in the GI Belmont S., and Orb (Malibu Moon) earned the Kentucky horseman a GI Kentucky Derby score in 2013. This Saturday, McGaughey could claim his final Triple Crown jewel with a promising contender in Perform (Good Magic).

Godolphin had a Derby weekend to remember after their celebrated Grade I victories from Pretty Mischevious, Cody's Wish and Matareya. We visited the dams of each of these top-class performers and met their latest foals.

The father and son duo Gustavo Delgado Sr. and Gustavo Delgado Jr. fulfilled their lifetime goal of wining an American Classic race with Mage's victory in the 2023 GI Kentucky Derby.

Larry Rivelli is heading to his first Kentucky Derby with GIII Jeff Ruby Steaks winner Two Phil's. The son of Hard Spun is owned by a collection of Chicagoans who, like Rivelli, are hoping to make their hometown proud.

Slipofthepen - 2000 Guineas entrant Running Lion - 1000 Guineas entrant We went along to watch John and Thady Gosden's entrants for the upcoming Guineas meeting have a racecourse gallop on Newmarket's Rowley Mile. Watch to see how they went.

Kentucky Derby contenders Derma Sotogake and Continuar arrived at Churchill Downs on April and the Japanese-breds colts are thriving in their training. Kate Hunter introduces us to the Derby-bound pair.

Netkeiba.com's Toshi Onikubo takes a deep dive into the three Japanese Kentucky Derby contenders. This week's podcast is sponsored by Keeneland, the Green Group, Coolmore, WinStar, the PHBA, the KTOB , XBTV, and West Point Thoroughbreds.

Who was this week's fastest horse, as measured by the Beyer Speed Figures? NBC-TV's Randy Moss fills us in, and shares this week's WinStar fast sire with us as well.

On this week's edition of 1/ST THINGS 1/ST at Santa Anita, Zoe Cadman talks to John Shirreffs ahead of Skinner's trip to the Kentucky Derby.