THERE was an interesting connection with the past as hounds of the Tara Harriers were unboxed beside The Old Rectory in Kentstown, Co Meath, as it was the former home of Colonel Amadeo Guillet (1909-2010), a follower of the Tara Harriers and the Meath Foxhounds.

Guillet had an interesting past as he was selected for the Italian Olympic Equestrian Team for the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. An Italian diplomat and commanding officer of a cavalry unit known as ‘The Devil Commander’ or ‘The Man on the White Horse’, and sometimes referred to as ‘The Italian Lawrence of Arabia’.