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  2. Racing Post Novice Chase - Wikipedia

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    The Racing Post Novice Chase is a Grade 1 National Hunt chase in Ireland. The race is run at Leopardstown Racecourse in December, over a distance of 2 miles and 1 furlong (3,419 metres) and during its running there are 11 fences to be jumped. The race is run on 26 December, which is known in Ireland as St Stephen's Day, and is one of the ...

  3. Racing Post - Wikipedia

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    London, England, United Kingdom. ISSN. 0968-3364. Website. www .racingpost .com. Racing Post is a British daily horse racing, greyhound racing and sports betting publisher published in print and digital formats. It is printed in tabloid format from Monday to Sunday. As of December 2008, it has an average daily circulation of 60,629 copies.

  4. Coral Trophy Handicap Chase - Wikipedia

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    The Coral Trophy is a Premier Handicap National Hunt steeplechase in Great Britain which is open to horses aged five years or older. It is run at Kempton Park over a distance of about 3 miles (4,828 metres), and during its running there are eighteen fences to be jumped. It is a handicap race, and it is scheduled to take place each year in late ...

  5. Power nap - Wikipedia

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    Power nap. A power nap or cat nap is a short sleep that terminates before deep sleep ( slow-wave sleep; SWS). A power nap is intended to quickly revitalize the sleeper. Cornell University social psychologist James Maas coined the term. [1] A power nap combined with consuming caffeine is called a stimulant nap, coffee nap, caffeine nap, or ...

  6. Sara Mednick - Wikipedia

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    Sara C. Mednick is a sleep researcher at the University of California, Irvine. Her research focuses on the relationship between napping and performance. She is the author of several papers and a mass market book, Take a Nap! Change Your Life. She graduated with her PhD in psychology from Harvard University studying under Ken Nakayama and Robert ...

  7. David Pipe (racehorse trainer) - Wikipedia

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    Training career. Pipe began training point to point horses and had great success with 164 winners over six seasons. In April 2006, he took over the training licence from his father Martin Pipe. His first winners as racing trainer came on 9 May 2006 with Standin Obligation at Kelso Racecourse. [4] On the same day at Exeter Racecourse he had ...

  8. Polyphasic sleep - Wikipedia

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    Polyphasic sleep is the practice of sleeping during multiple periods over the course of 24 hours, in contrast to monophasic sleep, which is one period of sleep within 24 hours. Biphasic (or diphasic, bifurcated, or bimodal) sleep refers to two periods, while polyphasic usually means more than two. [1] Segmented sleep and divided sleep may refer ...

  9. Kameko Futurity Trophy - Wikipedia

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    From 1989 to 2017 the race was sponsored by the Racing Post and run as the Racing Post Trophy. The Futurity Trophy is now the last Group 1 event of the British flat racing season. The 2019 race was run on Newcastle 's Tapeta track, after the Doncaster meeting was abandoned because of waterlogging, thereby becoming the first British Group 1 race to be run on an artificial surface.