Menorah

Menorah is a national hunt racehorse trained by Philip Hobbs and owned by Diana Whateley.

His biggest success to date came at the 2010 Cheltenham Festival in the Grade One Supreme Novices' Hurdle. A further top grade win arrived over fences in the Manifesto Novices' Chase at Aintree in 2012.

Menorah started his career in Ireland, where he was based in the Thomas Mullins stable. He won on his racecourse debut at Naas in August, 2009, scoring in a national hunt flat race over 2m3f.

The following season, he moved across to the UK and was placed in the hands of Hobbs. He was successful twice in his first four starts over hurdles in his novice campaign.

Those outings came before a shot at the Festival at Prestbury Park. Menorah went off at odds of 12/1 for the opening race of the meeting and he was able to get up by a head in front of Get Me Out Of Here to win the Grade One Supreme Novices' Hurdle.

In his next season over hurdles, he won a Grade Three and Grade Two contest before finishing fifth in the Champion Hurdle in March in the race won by Hurricane Fly from Ireland.

Menorah was campaigned over fences for the first time in 2011/2012. He unseated jockey Richard Johnson in his opening novice chase in November of that season at Exeter. Two starts later he did land a win over fences at Taunton in a three runner field, when going off the 1/4 favourite.

Later in his opening chase season, he finished third in the Arkle at Cheltenham. Hobbs' runner came home 29 lengths behind Sprinter Scare and also had Cue Card ahead of him as he crossed the line.

Fortunately for connections, neither the first or second from the Arkle went into the Grade One Manifest Novices' Chase at the Grand National Meeting at Aintree. The former Supreme Novices' Hurdle winner was able to come out on top over the 2m4f trip on Merseyside.

In his second season over fences, Menorah won just once. His victory came at Kempton in the rearranged Grade Two Peterborough Chase. He was then pulled up for the first time in his career in the Ryanair Chase. That was his third visit to the Cheltenham Festival.

Hobbs' star is expected to return to the racecourse in the 2013/2014 season as he continues his career at the age of eight.

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