Mares and fillies resting in the pasture. The National Stud provides, you guessed it, stud services. Hourly tours take you by the stallion boxes, past the cover shed (where the magic happens) and out to the paddocks where the horses run freely. County Kildare, location of the facility, proved a successful area for raising race horses due to the calcium and other minerals in its waters. An on site museum gives the history of the horse, thoroughbred breeding and racing.
A Japanese garden adjacent to the stud farm has been immaculately kept for about 100 years.
A path through a running stream is provided to get you from one area of the gardens to the next.
When I asked these two Irishmen if I could take their photo, one of them said, "for a fiver." I gave him a kiss on the cheek instead . . . and he seemed happy with that!
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