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===Other sports=== Celbridge Tennis Club was founded in 1923, and the club's premises on Hazelhatch Road were opened in the 1970s.{{citation needed|date=October 2018}} Celbridge horse racecourse is mentioned in the ''[[Freeman's Journal]]'' of 27 September 1763 and 4 October 1763, but was not in use after the end of the 18th century. Locally trained horse [[Workman (horse)|Workman]], trained by [[Jack Ruttle]] out of [[Hazelhatch Stud]], was the winner of the [[Aintree Grand National]] in 1939. A point-to-point meeting was held at nearby Windgaps 1912β1954. A cricket club was active from 1880 to 1902. Kildare County Polo Club had their grounds on Castletown Estate 1901β1906. Among those who played polo in Celbridge was [[Prince Heinrich]], younger brother to Kaiser William II.<ref>Irish Times, 24 May 1902</ref> There is salmon and sea trout angling locally, with trout found from [[Islandbridge]] upstream, with other trout fishing grounds above [[Leixlip]] and all the way to [[Ballymore Eustace]].<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.irelandflyfishing.com/fisheries.php?&fisheries_id=29 | publisher = Great Fishing Houses of Ireland | title = Ireland's Fisheries β River Liffey | website = irelandflyfishing.com | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110713055305/http://www.irelandflyfishing.com/fisheries.php?&fisheries_id=29 | archive-date = 13 July 2011}}</ref>
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