"Or a wooden spoon." If this kept up, she was going to lose it.

She leaned down to pat Sirona's neck instead. "She was a seventeenth birthday present," she tells Julien. Christabel, her first horse and only one before Sirona, had been from her papa, when she'd been eleven. "I've weathered a lot of injuries with her in the last couple of years." But she'd won more than one challenge with her too, so Zoe thought that Sirona was keeping up her end of the deal nicely.