Tom wanted to go to gym and stay in hotel. Kris and Ed to Irish National Stud. BMW today - nice! Oh the foals! Fields and fields of mares and foals. Three in Nursery paddocks. Immaculate barns and stalls. Paddocks for the stallions. Foaling stalls – straw piled so high it is unbelievable! The stud was estalished around 1900 by Colonel William Hall-Walker who had remarkable luck racing the horses he bred. He would have each foal's horoscope read and if it was deemed auspicious - a bad reading and the horse was sold! Lunch on the deck overlooking a pond complete with swan. Back to Dublin and the Guinness Storehouse. Great tour…better pint – now I understand! Back to the hotel. Wales tomorrow!
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