Horses to Follow 2025: Tom Malone Reveals His Big Prospects & Hidden Gems for the Jumps Season

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🗓️ 11 October 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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He’s the bloodstock mastermind behind over 4,000 race winners - sourcing Cheltenham Gold Cup heroes, Grand National champions, and Grade 1 stars from Native River to Envoi Allen. But earlier this year, Tom Malone found himself in an unexpected spotlight when Paul Nicholls announced changes to his buying team. Tom reflects on that moment - the noise, the lessons, and how he chose quiet work over public defence - before turning the page to what really matters: the horses who could light up the 2025/26 Jumps season. In this wide-ranging conversation, Emmet Kennedy goes deep with one of the most successful, straight-talking figures in bloodstock on: 🔥 The Split & The Mindset “I was chucked under the bus” — how Tom handled the headlines and rebuilt focus. Loyalty, reputation, and why discipline beats outrage every time. 💼 Finding the Next Superstars How the French market and three-year-old claimers are changing the game. Why elite Flat prices are forcing Jumps buyers to reinvent strategy. The inside track on future stars including:Windbeneathmywings, Gameofinches, Sober Glory, Act of Innocence,Kingston Queen, No Drama This End, Fresh Perspective, Teeshan,Tutti Quanti, Regent’s Stroll, Sinnatra, Bud Fox, Sticktotheplan, and Wendigo. 🧬 The Next Wave - Debutants & Hidden GemsNorth Shore, Parchment, Manoir De Mirande, Fairy Park, Presley, Sapphos Word, and Werner - the unexposed names Tom believes could explode this winter. Has Tom Malone unearthed another Bravemansgame, Native River or Envoi Allen?After this interview, you might just think so. ❤️ Resilience & Redemption “Light a fire under me and see what I can do.” The lessons from two decades at the top of racing. 👉 Who do you think could be Tom Malone’s next big star? Comment below or tag a racing friend before they back it first.👍 Like, 💬 comment, and 🔔 subscribe for new interviews every week from the world’s top trainers, jockeys, and bloodstock agents. 📺 Watch on YouTube🎧 Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts & everywhere you get your racing fix. Join 1xBet Ireland today and get €30 in free bets when you place a €10 wager.👉 18+ | T&Cs apply | Play responsibly 🎁 Loss Refund Bet: Get a free bet back on losing wagers. 18+ | T&Cs apply https://1xbet.ie Form Tools: Proform is the essential tool for punters looking to make money from betting on Horse Racing. Our form book covers Jumps and Flat racing in the UK and Ireland. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.proformracing.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Twitter: @FinalFurlongPod Email: [email protected] In association with Adelicious Podcast Network. Hosted on Megaphone. Follow us for free on Spotify Podcasts https://open.spotify.com/show/3e6NnBkr7MBstVx5U7lpld National Hunt racing, Cheltenham tips, Cheltenham Festival 2025, Aintree tips, Grand National preview, Punchestown Festival 2025, Horse racing betting tips, National Hunt horses to follow, Racing analysis, expert racing tips, Irish National Hunt, UK jumps racing, Gold Cup 2025 contenders, Champion Hurdle, Champion Chase, Final Furlong Podcast racing tips, #FinalFurlongPodcast, #NationalHunt, #CheltenhamFestival, #CheltenhamTips, #HorseRacingTips, #GrandNational, #JumpsRacing, #GoldCup, #HorseRacingBetting, #AintreeFestival, #PunchestownFestival Tom Malone, Emmet Kennedy, The Final Furlong Podcast, Native River, Envoi Allen, Paul Nicholls, bloodstock, horse racing podcast, Cheltenham, Grand National, Jumps racing tips, horses to follow 2025, racing interview, National Hunt season preview, French horses for sale, Bud Fox, Windbeneathmywings, Gameofinches, Jamie Snowden, David Pipe, Willie Mullins, Gavin Cromwell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Never miss an episode of the Final Furlong podcast.
0:03.8	Subscribe now on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:09.4	And now, here's your host, Emmett Kennedy.
0:11.8	Welcome back to the show.
0:12.7	It's great to have your company.
0:13.7	And we are joined by a special guest as we set the scene for the new jump season.
0:17.2	A man who's going to steer us in the right direction is somebody who hasn't been involved in sourcing over 4,000 winners from Cheltenham Festival Heroes, Aintree Heroes, multiple grade one winners, gold cup winners as well, for that matter, and the great N-YLN. Tom Malone, you're very welcome back to the Final Forlum podcast. Happy to be on. I know it's an incredibly busy time for you. You were just at the Arcana Sale. you're in the middle of sale season now. And the list of horses we're going to go through on the face of it looks very,
0:40.9	very exciting. Busy time for you. Yeah, well, when you asked to come back on, I said, yeah,
0:44.9	no problem. It's been a tricky year, but let's roll at it. And I said, I'd sit down and
0:49.3	go and through a list for you. I actually gave myself a pat on the back after I got through the list and said, I'm been that bad actually, has it? The line you gave the racing post when you gave the interview to them was you felt like you've been thrown under the bus after the whole Paul Nichols fiasco, and that's what it felt like. And I think the vast majority of people who work within the industry or work within the racing media could all see through it and go, this is nonsense. But for you in that moment, how did that feel?
1:11.0	I understood what was happening. Paul had to make a decision for his yard, his business, his
1:16.0	owners. And yeah, you could knock on the face of it and say most of the horses weren't good
1:21.3	enough. But I think he had an incredibly tricky year as well, which absolutely duplicated the problem.
1:29.4	And you had the outside world getting involved then.
1:32.3	Before long it was a shitstorm.
1:34.3	And Paul made a decision.
1:36.0	I still buy horses for Paul, but he just opened the floor up to help his own business.
1:41.4	I kind of took me six or eight weeks to take my head out on my backside and
1:45.7	think life was over. It was all going to disappear. Actually, then I got my mojo in gear and I've
1:52.7	had as busy as busy as spring as I've ever had. I think it opened the door for me to a lot of places
1:57.0	that I wasn't getting into because they probably perceived that Paul had first choice on any nice horse that I would have. And, you know, so that's, that's helped me by a lot of, a lot of fresh new young blood this year for different people. Everybody gets fired. There's a line in media, Tom, if you haven't been fired from a job, you'd never really worked in media in the first place. But it's the ability to be able to pick yourself up and bounce back, which is not an easy thing to do. And when that happens to you in such a high profile scenario, you mentioned six, seven weeks of having to try and get through it. It's not an easy thing to do. No, I suppose not, but I never really knew it until when crap like this happens, you find out how resilient you are
2:35.7	and hard.
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