The Hearts were usually - but not always - ones for the gentler sorts of training methods. And it probably also had helped that Zoe had been an eight year old girl instead of a seventeen year old boy.

Then again, maybe she would have been tossed up on a seventeen hand gelding with a temper if she'd been born a Spade.

She glances at Padraig, though, who on the temper scale seems to be considerably more evenhanded than, say, Sirona. And Evander was the same, she recalled from riding with Eileen. "You seem to have upgraded."