Editing County Kildare (section)

===Horse racing===
Kildare is famous worldwide for its horse racing.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://newswoman.de/clips/kildare.html |title=Passion for Horses, The New York Times |publisher=Newswoman.de |date=16 April 1995 |access-date=27 December 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120119221949/http://newswoman.de/clips/kildare.html |archive-date=19 January 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kildarehorse.ie/ |title=Kildarehorse |website=Kildarehorse.ie |access-date=25 June 2009 |archive-date=7 November 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091107025941/http://www.kildarehorse.ie/ |url-status=live}}</ref> [[Curragh Racecourse|The Curragh]] [[horse-racing]] course is the home to all five Irish Classic Flat races. Also located in County Kildare are two other courses, [[Punchestown Racecourse]], home of the National Hunt Festival of Ireland, and [[Naas Racecourse]], which runs both National Hunt and Flat meetings and is used by top racehorse trainers as a test for horses preparing for the Cheltenham festival.

The county is famous for the quality of horses bred in the many stud farms to which it is home, including the [[Irish National Stud]] and many other top studs such as Gilltown, Moyglare and [[Kildangan Stud]], and race horse training establishments, such as the Osborne Stables.