Menorah wins Greatwood Hurdle

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Menorah stamped himself as the latest Champion Hurdle candidate when he won the Greatwood Handicap Hurdle.

Philip Hobbs won the race with both Rooster Booster in 2002 and Detroit City and Menorah looks to be cut from the same cloth after a battling performance under top weight and a driving ride form Richard Johnson. Menorah had showed his potential when he beat Get Me Out Of Here in the Grade One Supreme Novices’ Hurdle at Last season’s Cheltenham Festival but now he had the weight- 11st 12lb – to match the weight of expectancy.

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