I have a large number of links on every page, for design reasons I want to keep it but is it hurting my SEO

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Published on 2012-11-12T13:35:14Z Indexed on 2012/11/12 17:23 UTC
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The site is http://www.centralsaddlery.co.uk

We have other issues which we are tackling in terms of content etc but the question I have is: "Is my main navigation hurting us in SEO?" Its a lot of links and it's on a lot of pages. If so - what is a way to get google to ignore links below the top level. I had thought google would see that the links are hidden by default and only shown on hover but I can't verify this at all.

We absolutely want to keep the menu, our customers like it and so do we - we think it is pretty usable as we have a lot of products to look at.

Any advice is appreciated (and any tips for any part of the SEO are welcome too)

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