Jumpers To Follow Special: Paul Ferguson's Guide to the Novice Chasers & Second Season Hurdlers | 28/1 Tip

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🗓️ 16 September 2025

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The new National Hunt season is here, and we’ve got the man behind the sport’s most trusted guide. Emmet Kennedy is joined by Paul Ferguson, author of Jumpers To Follow 2025–26, to preview the novice chasers and second-season hurdlers who could define the season. Now in its 19th year, Jumpers To Follow is packed with profiles, point-to-point notes, jockey insights, and Cheltenham trends. And Final Furlong listeners get £3 off with our exclusive promo code at checkout via weatherbysshop.ie or weatherbysshop.co.uk. 🔑 Key Talking Points & Horses to Follow:• The New Lion – Unbeaten, Baring Bingham winner, could he be the Champion Hurdler?• The Yellow Clay – Gordon Elliott’s Lawlor’s winner, built for fences, but staying over hurdles. Stayers champ?• Final Demand – Devastating at Punchestown. Is he the Novice Chaser to beat?• Jasmin De Vaux – Stayer in the making, dual Cheltenham winner, now aiming at the Stayers crown.• Romeo Coolio, Regent’s Stroll, Kopek Des Bordes – Supreme, Aintree & Punchestown form lines.• Lulamba – Triumph runner-up, what route will last season's best 4yo hurdler take?• HDB Mares – The Big Westerner, Air of Entitlement, shaping into festival players.• Cheltenham 2026 Talking Points – Arkle, Brown Advisory, Champion Hurdle, and Gold Cup pathways. 💰 Exclusive Offer:Save £3 on Jumpers To Follow 2025–26 with our exclusive promo code at weatherbysshop.ie or weatherbysshop.co.uk. 🎧 Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn & all platforms.💬 Comment your #1 horse to follow for the new season below. ⚡Proven Form: Winners tipped recently at 20/1, 16/1, 14/1, 12/1 & 10/1. 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 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.
0:03.4	Subscribe now on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:09.1	And now, here's your host, Emmett Kennedy.
0:11.6	Welcome to a special National Hunt Edition of the Final Furlong podcast.
0:15.5	We're going to be looking ahead to the new jump season with a focus on second season hurdlers and novice chasers to look forward
0:21.8	to horses who hopefully are going to be lighting up those cold winter months. Who better to guide us
0:26.7	through than the author of the Weatherby's Chelten Festival Bedding Guide? And more importantly
0:30.0	for right now, the author of the book, The Essential Guide for the new jump season. Paul Ferguson's
0:34.8	jumpers to follow 2025, 2026 releases today digitally. You can get it Thursday on
0:40.6	weatherbyshop.co.com.wetherbyshop. Ie. Have the print and the digital bundle. That's what I do.
0:45.7	Best of both worlds. We've got an exclusive discount code just for Final Furland podcast listeners,
0:50.2	and it's the biggest discount code that you will get. FF, JTF, 2526 gets you three pounds off.
0:56.3	The print copy, the digital copy, or the print and digital bundle.
0:59.6	You know what makes sense.
1:00.5	Whetherbyshop.coad.uk.
1:02.1	If you're watching on YouTube, the code is now on the screen.
1:04.9	Final for long, jumpers to follow, 25, 26.
1:07.5	FF.J.F.J.F.2526. Paul, how long did it take you to assemble Paul Ferguson's jumpers to follow for the new season?
1:13.6	I'd say about four months, probably all in all, Emmett. Pretty much start as soon as Ainsweet and Punchstown is over. And then it was in place almost end of August and just tinkering with things the last couple of weeks before we went to print last week. So yeah, a good solid four months worth of work. Incredible stuff,
1:33.1	but also it's the massive insight, not only from yourself, but you've got views from champion
1:38.2	jockeys, you've got pedigree analysis, exciting point-to-point recruits, news from France.
1:43.6	What have I missed out on? What
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