AS villages go, Dolla is about as small as it gets! For all that, it is in the heart of North Tipperary hunt country and is right beside the late Tony Ryan’s fabulous estate, Kilboy, which has produced so many group winners including Gio Ponti, winner of the Arlington Million in 2009 and voted Champion Turf Horse in the same year.

Dolla is located between The Silvermines, a former mining village, and Nenagh which is one of Tipperary’s main market towns. The hunt has evolved out of the Thurles and Kilshane Harriers who once hunted the country but has had many permutations over the years