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By Sean Moriarty

A horse was a guest of honour at the Kerry Hunt Ball in the Killarney Avenue Hotel on Saturday evening.

No - there is no need to be alarmed - as it was not a real horse.

Members of the hunt club dressed up as a pantomime horse and galloped through the ballroom of the East Avenue premises while Father Ted’s song ‘My Lovely Horse’, sung by Slog the Dog, provided the background music.

It was all part of the fun and games at the annual ball where members of the local club celebrated another successful season on horseback.

Highlights of the season included raising €1,500 for Recovery Haven Kerry Cancer Support House in Tralee.

Unusually the club does not present awards at its annual do.

“We are a team and everyone is equal in our club,” organiser Julianne O' Connor said. “We celebrated another successful year for the club. We have to say thanks to all the landowners who allowed us through their fields and the publicans along the routes who welcomed us every Sunday through the season. We did not miss one Sunday this year.”

[caption id="attachment_25330" align="aligncenter" width="3000"] Dan O'Sullivan, Johnny O'Connor (Hunt Club Chairman), Rebecca Kerin (Secretary) and Sean Treacy at the Kerry Hunt Club Ball in The Killarney Avenue Hotel on Saturday night. Picture: Eamonn Keogh[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_25329" align="aligncenter" width="2482"] Niamh Brosnan, Mikayla Maunsell and Geraldine Brosnan at the Kerry Hunt Club Ball in The Killarney Avenue Hotel on Saturday night. Picture: Eamonn Keogh[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_25328" align="aligncenter" width="3000"] Tara O'Connor, Caoimhe Sugrue, Shona Chawke, Ava Sugrue, Mark Chawke and Amber Sugrue at the Kerry Hunt Club Ball in The Killarney Avenue Hotel on Saturday night. Picture: Eamonn Keogh[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_25327" align="aligncenter" width="3000"] Caoimhe Ferris, Niamh O'Donoghue, Julia Bobrowska and Lisa Browne at the Kerry Hunt Club Ball in The Killarney Avenue Hotel on Saturday night. Picture: Eamonn Keogh[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_25326" align="aligncenter" width="2075"] Johnny O'Connor (Hunt Club Chairman) and Alannah O'Regan at the Kerry Hunt Club Ball in The Killarney Avenue Hotel on Saturday night. Picture: Eamonn Keogh[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_25325" align="aligncenter" width="2566"] Siobhan Collins, Shauna Ahern and Rebecca Kerin at the Kerry Hunt Club Ball in The Killarney Avenue Hotel on Saturday night. Picture: Eamonn Keogh[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_25324" align="aligncenter" width="3200"] Mary and Tom O'Connell, Mary and Mike Fitzgerald, Liam, Ruairi and Catherine Murphy, James McElligott and Niamh O'Sullivan at the Kerry Hunt Club Ball in The Killarney Avenue Hotel on Saturday night. Picture: Eamonn Keogh[/caption]