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Organisers of the Ballinasloe Horse Fair and Festival have decided to downsize the festival this year, amid fears of a repeat of last year’s disturbances over a ban on sulky racing.

Horses, goats and fowl for sale, jarvey racing, horse-trading - all part of the action at the annual Ballinasloe Horse Fair and Festival that finishes on Sunday.

Ballinasloe is this week preparing for the annual Ballinasloe October Fair and Festival, which gets under way in the town this weekend.

The programme of events for the 2011 Ballinasloe October Fair, worth in the region of €8.5 million to the local economy, was officially launched by Mayor of Ballinasloe, Cllr Mike Kelly at a special reception at the Carlton Shearwater Hotel in Ballinasloe on Monday night.

The countdown to the Ballinasloe Fair and Festival continues, and the search is on for this year’s Queen of the Fair. Europe’s oldest horse fair starts on Saturday October 1, and the Queen of the Fair will be crowned in the Carlton Shearwater Hotel on a gala night on Saturday September 17.

Local girl Hannah Kelly (21) from Shannonbridge, Ballinasloe was crowned the 2010 Carlton Shearwater Hotel Queen of the Fair in a glittering ceremony last week.

With just over two weeks remaining to the start of the Ballinasloe October Fair and Festival - the oldest horse fair in Europe - the search is now on to select the 2010 Queen of the Fair.

With just over two weeks to go to the start of the Ballinasloe October Fair and Festival, the search is now on to select the 2010 Carlton Shearwater Hotel Queen of the Fair.

The programme of events for the 2010 Ballinasloe October Fair and Festival was officially launched by mayor of Ballinasloe, Cllr Pat O’Sullivan, at a special reception hosted by the Carlton Shearwater Hotel in Ballinasloe on Monday night.

More than 85,000 people are expected to attend the 300-year-old Ballinasloe October Fair and Festival which kicks off on Saturday October 2.