THERE was a link between the two main equestrian events of last weekend, the Tattersalls international horse trials and the Mullingar International Horse Show.

Marti Rudd and her husband Tomas Doyle bought and sold The Soapdodger, winner of the Cooley Farm CCI* for six and seven-year-old horses, and called in to Tattersalls to see the Camiro De Haar Z gelding tackle the cross-country course on Friday before heading on to Mullingar where they had horses jumping.