Our little fair still has mostly kids with their rabbits and chickens and pigs and dogs and beef steers and some horses. They've always had rides, but I've never even gone to that side of the fair. I want to see the ladies mounted drill team, if anything, because it is always so chaotic and out of control. This is their only gig of the year, I think, and they just really aren't any good ;~D
Ours does have all the 4H stuff...and that's the side of it I DO like. But when I went last time, my siblings wanted to hang out on the midway (whatever it's called?) with the games and food booths, and it was horribly loud. Noise bothers me more than anything...I have a very, very low tolerance for it.
I missed the horse shows last time! I saw a bit of one of the jumping trials (dunno the terminology) from a distance, but nothing up close. Got to pet some of the horses, though!